ISOLATING
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.
Dictionary entry details
• ISOLATING (adjective)
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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