hyponymic

English

Etymology

hyponym +‎ -ic. By surface analysis, hyp- +‎ -onym +‎ -ic = hypo- +‎ -nym +‎ -ic.

Adjective

hyponymic (not comparable)

1. Being a hyponym.

   The word dog is hyponymic to the word mammal.

2. Of or pertaining to hyponyms.

   That other thesaurus labels the hyponymic or hypernymic relation more clearly than this one does.

Synonyms

• hyponymous

Antonyms

• hypernymic
• hypernymous

Coordinate terms

• synonymic
• synonymous
• More: see Wiktionary:Semantic relations

Derived terms

• hyponymically

Related terms

• hyponymously

Translations

Translations

• French: ^{(please verify)} hyponymique (fr) m or f