noun
- a word or phrase in apposition.
adjective
- placed in apposition.
- (of an adjective or adjectival phrase) directly following the noun it modifies.
adjective
- grammar
- standing in apposition
- another word for nonrestrictive
- of or relating to apposition
noun
- an appositive word or phrase
1690s, from Latin appositus, past participle of apponere “to put to” (see apposite) + -ive. As a noun, from 1847.