monosemantic, a.
(mɒnəʊsiːˈmæntɪk)
[f. mono- + semantic a.]
Of a word or phrase, having only one meaning. Also monosemanˈtemic a.
| 1957 S. Potter Mod. Linguistics vii. 147 The simplest words are manifestly those which symbolize single things or concepts, like proper names. These may be described as monosemantemic, and therefore unambiguous. 1960 E. Delavenay Introd. Machine Translation vi. 97 The vocabulary is classified into monosemantic and polysemantic grammatical words. 1966 English Studies XLVII. 56 Such case-forms are not strictly monosemantic, but can vary in their function according to the context. |