nominaladjective
uk/ˈnɒm.ɪ.nəl/us/ˈnɑː.mə.nəl/nominal adjective (NOT REALLY)
in name or thought but not in fact or not as things really are:
She's the nominal head of our college - the real work is done by her deputy.
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True, real, false, and unreal
- actual
- actuality
- actually
- all that glitters is not gold idiom
- apocryphal
- fairy tale
- faithful
- false
- falsely
- fictional
- glitter
- gritty
- practically
- pretend
- proper
- properly
- properly speaking idiom
- pukka
- verily
- well founded
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nominal adjective (SMALL)
A nominal amount of money is very small compared to an expected price or value:
a nominal sum/charge
For a nominal fee, they will deliver orders to customers' homes.
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Costing little or no money
- bargain
- bargain bin
- cheap rate
- cheaply
- cut-price
- downscale
- economy-size
- knock-down
- low-cost
- low-rent
- mass market
- nothing
- offer
- reasonably
- snip
- something
- song
- steal
- tacky
- trinket
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nominal adjective (GRAMMAR)
specialized language relating to a noun
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Linguistics: grammatical terms
- ablative
- apposition
- attributive
- collocate
- comparative
- declension
- decline
- dependent clause
- double negative
- grammar
- grammarian
- grammatical
- independent clause
- indirect object
- inflect
- interrogative
- modifier
- plurality
- reflexive
- superlative
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nominally
adverb uk/ˈnɒm.ɪ.nəl.i/us/ˈnɑː.mə.nəl.i/
The province is nominally independent.