Definitions for modifier

modifier mod·i·fi·er

Spelling: [mod-uh-fahy-er]
IPA: /ˈmɒd əˌfaɪ ər/

Modifier is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 194 anagrams from letters in modifier (defiimor).

Definitions for modifier

noun

  1. a person or thing that modifies.
  2. Grammar. a word, phrase, or sentence element that limits or qualifies the sense of another word, phrase, or element in the same construction. the immediate constituent of an endocentric construction that is not the head.

Origin of modifier

First recorded in 1575-85; modify + -er1

Examples for 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.

Eosin may be said to be a modifier of vermilion or vermilion of eosin.

Love he regards as the creative power, the destroyer or modifier being Hate.

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

Y is a modifier of X, but unless X is present Y can produce no effect.

Electricity as a modifier of properties in turn throws flame into eclipse.

A word or group of words that changes or modifies the meaning of another word is called a modifier.

No modifier should be inserted between to and the infinitive.

In some of these examples, the predicate adjective has a modifier.

Word Value for modifier
Scrable

14

Words with friends

15

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