non-defining
adjective
That does not define; (specifically in Grammar ) designating a relative clause which gives additional information about, rather than identifying, the antecedent of the relative.
Origin
1920s; earliest use found in Henry Fowler (1858–1933), lexicographer and grammarian.
- departmentalism
- departmentalization
- departmentalize
- departmentally
- Department of Agriculture
- Department of Homeland Security
- department store
- depart this life
- departure
- departure lounge
- depasturage
- depasture
- depauperate
- depend
- dependability
- dependable
- dependably
- dependant
- dependence
- dependency
- dependency culture
- dependent
- dependently
- dependent variable
- depending on