plural of gradable

Able to form degrees or grades / (linguistics, of a word or phrase) Able to occur in varying degrees; able to be inflected or modified to express degrees of meaning.

(linguistics) A word that can be inflected to specify the degree or grade of something.

The property of being gradable.

In a gradable manner.

plural of gradability

plural of non-gradable

(linguistics, philosophy, semantics) One of a pair of terms that denotes one end of a scale while the other term denotes the other end, such as long and short.

That cannot be graded. / (linguistics) (of an adjective) Describing a quality that cannot normally be varied because it is extreme (e.g. freezing), absolute (e.g. dead), or classification (e.g. nuclear).

(linguistics) Any adjective that is not gradable.