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modifier

noun as in limiter

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Example Sentences

On the summer programming spectrum, it skewed more towards “just plain silly,” sans the “but still curious” modifier.

But not effortlessly charming, which is usually the modifier when someone uses "charming" as an adjective.

The ‘Zionist’ modifier is crucial because it differentiates between the situation in Israel/Palestine and Afrikaaner Apartheid.

Chateaubriand was a kind of continuer and modifier of a celebrated French writer that preceded him.

Change the order of words in the following sentences, placing each modifier as closely as possible to the word which it modifies.

Those groups in which the first part is the principal one, followed by a word or phrase making a modifier.

Both of these are now used side by side; sometimes they are used together, as one modifier, making a double possessive.

That is, do not place between two parts of a sentence a modifier that may attach itself to either.

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On this page you'll find 10 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to modifier, such as: adjective, adverb, conditioner, transformer, alterant, and alterer.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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