appositive
/əˈpɑzɪtɪv/adjective, noun
appositive is an adjective meaning “of or being in apposition” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-P-P-O-S-I-T-I-V-E, and it appears about once in every 26 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does appositive mean?
adjective
- 1
of or being in apposition
noun
- 1
a word or phrase that is in apposition
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce appositive?
- US /əˈpɑzɪtɪv/
- US /-ɾɪv/
- UK /əˈpɒzɪtɪv/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-appositive.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of appositive
- appositives plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is appositive?
Appositive appears about once in every 26 million words in written English, the 154,067th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Appositive in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.