1. polymorphemic - consisting of two or more morphemes
   

Polymorphemic

Part of speech: Adjective

Definition: Referring to a word or morpheme that consists of two or more meaningful units or morphemes.

Senses:

1. Common: Pertaining to a word formed by combining multiple morphemes to create a single meaning.
   Example sentence: "The word 'unhappiness' is polymorphemic as it consists of the prefixes 'un-' and 'dis-', and the root 'happiness'."
2. Technical: Relating to a morpheme that cannot stand alone as an independent word and requires the association with other morphemes to convey meaning.
   Example sentence: "The suffix '-ed' is polymorphemic as it only serves to indicate the past tense when combined with a verb, such as in 'walked' or 'played'."

Usages: The term 'polymorphemic' is used in linguistics and language analysis to describe the structure of words and morphemes.

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