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ISOLATING

Pronunciation (US):

• ISOLATING (adjective)
The adjective ISOLATING has 1 sense:

1. relating to or being a language in which each word typically expresses a distinct idea and part of speech and syntactical relations are determined almost exclusively by word order and particles

Familiarity information: ISOLATING used as an adjective is very rare.

• ISOLATING (adjective)

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Meaning:

Relating to or being a language in which each word typically expresses a distinct idea and part of speech and syntactical relations are determined almost exclusively by word order and particles

Similar:

analytic; uninflected (expressing a grammatical category by using two or more words rather than inflection)

"He that lives too fast, goes to his grave too soon."
(English proverb)
"No death without reason."
(Bhutanese proverb)
"The best of the things you own, is what is useful to you."
(Arabic proverb)
"When two dogs fight over a bone, a third one carries it away."
(Dutch proverb)

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