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Nominal

  1. adjective

    of, relating to, or characteristic of an amount that is not adjusted for inflation

    “the nominal GDP”

  2. adjective

    insignificantly small; a matter of form only (`tokenish' is informal)

    “the fee was nominal”

    Similar: token, tokenish

  3. adjective

    pertaining to a noun or to a word group that functions as a noun

    “nominal phrase”

  4. noun

    a phrase that can function as the subject or object of a verb

    Similar: noun phrase, nominal phrase

Word family

nominalism · nominalist · nominally

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