compositional

Adjective

1. Of or relating to composition.
   • The compositional aspects of this work are less than ideal.
2. Being the sum of its parts.
   • The phrase "sum of its parts" is entirely compositional.
   • A wet súit meaning a suit that is wet is a compositional phrase; a wét suit meaning a garment worn by skin divers is a compound. - 1979, Edward S. Klima, Ursula Bellugi, The Signs of Language, page 202:
   • We have already noted that compounds tend to have meanings that are not entirely compositional and would therefore need to be listed. - 2003, Jean Boase-Beier, Ken R. Lodge, The German Language: A Linguistic...

   Antonyms: non-compositional

   Coordinate Terms: contextual