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a•syn•tac•tic
Pronunciation: (ā"sin-tak'tik), [key]—
adj. Gram.(of compounds)
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.Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.