asyntactic

[ ey-sin-tak-tik ]

adjective

, Grammar.

1. consisting of morphemes that are combined differently from their mode of combination as separate words in a phrase, as bookstore, which is an asyntactic compound, while the same elements are combined syntactically in store for books.

Word History and Origins

Origin of asyntactic¹

First recorded in 1875–80; a- ⁶ + syntactic