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ISOLATING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does isolating mean? 

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.


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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)


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