polysemic
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polysemic (comparative more polysemic, superlative most polysemic)
- (linguistics) Having a number of meanings, interpretations or understandings.
- Synonyms: polysemantic, polysemous
- Antonyms: monosemous, univocal
- 2007, Sean Brayton, “MTV's Jackass: Transgression, Abjection and the Economy of White Masculinity”, in Journal of Gender Studies, volume 16, page 58:
- As a series of polysemic and paradoxical sketches, Jackass does not lend itself to one particular theoretical analysis.
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having a number of meanings, interpretations or understandings — see polysemous