gradable

It appears that this phenomenon requires the encapsulation by a head of a gradable modifying notion.

Where the two words have definitions that lie on a continuous spectrum of meaning, they are gradable antonyms.

Technically, intensifiers roughly qualify a point on the affective semantic property, which is gradable.

Note further that comparison normally implies that the adjective or adverb is gradable.

Adverbs are, much like adjectives, normally gradable.

Temperature is such a continuous spectrum so hot and cold, two meanings on opposite ends of the spectrum, are gradable antonyms.

Graded (or gradable) antonyms are word pairs whose meanings are opposite and which lie on a continuous spectrum (hot, cold).

A gradable antonym is one of a pair of words with opposite meanings where the two meanings lie on a continuous spectrum.

Comparable adjectives are also known as gradable adjectives, because they tend to allow grading adverbs such as "very", "rather", and so on.

Assessment can be used as the gradable object referenced in the Grading OSID.

- gradable predicates such as'tall ',short ','large ','small ', etc.

This faceting scheme involves prescribed lengths and ratios as well as smaller tables sizes that are imperative in producing a distinctive, repeatable and gradable hearts and arrows pattern.

These more restricted meanings may not apply in all scholarly contexts, with Lyons (1968, 1977) defining antonym to mean gradable antonyms, and Crystal (2003) warns that antonymy and antonym should be regarded with care.