adjective
- Consisting of or composed of two morphemes.
Usage: linguistics; technical
Examples
- The word 'unhappy' is bimorphemic because it contains the morpheme 'un-' and the morpheme 'happy'.
- In linguistics class, students learned to identify bimorphemic words by breaking them into their component parts.
- The term 'bimorphemic' describes any word made up of exactly two meaningful units.
- Words like 'rewrite' and 'playful' are bimorphemic structures commonly used in morphological analysis.
- Understanding bimorphemic words helps learners recognize how prefixes and roots combine to create meaning.