paratactic
English
Etymology
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Adjective
paratactic (comparative more paratactic, superlative most paratactic)
- Pertaining to or using parataxis.
- 2007 February 16, The New York Times, “Pop and Rock Listings”, in New York Times[1]:
- BARR (Tonight and tomorrow night) Over bare stutters of piano and drums, Brendan Fowler of Barr lets loose an endlessly self-regarding logorrhea, questioning his every thought and instinct in a naked, paratactic melancholy.
Related terms
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French paratactique.
Adjective
paratactic m or n (feminine singular paratactică, masculine plural paratactici, feminine and neuter plural paratactice)
Declension
| singular | plural | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | |||
| nominative- accusative |
indefinite | paratactic | paratactică | paratactici | paratactice | |||
| definite | paratacticul | paratactica | paratacticii | paratacticele | ||||
| genitive- dative |
indefinite | paratactic | paratactice | paratactici | paratactice | |||
| definite | paratacticului | paratacticei | paratacticilor | paratacticelor | ||||