Friday, March 12, 2010

Polysemous

... from Visual Thesaurus Word of the Day;

You can choose a pronunciation for this adjective with stress on the 2nd or 3rd syllable since most dictionaries give both. It's one of our favorites here at Word of the Day, since it's about meanings: lots of them in this case. Its complementary buddy is monosemous, denoting words that have only one meaning.