nominal

  • (a) relating to or constituting or bearing or giving a name
    • the Russian system of nominal brevity
    • a nominal lists of priests
    • taxable males as revealed by the nominal rolls
  • (s) insignificantly small; a matter of form only ("tokenish" is informal)
    • the fee was nominal
    • a token gesture of resistance
    • a toknenish gesture
    token, tokenish,
  • (a) pertaining to a noun or to a word group that functions as a noun
    • nominal phrase
    • noun phrase
  • (a) of, relating to, or characteristic of an amount that is not adjusted for inflation
    • the nominal GDP
    • nominal interest rates
  • (s) named; bearing the name of a specific person
    • nominative shares of stock
    nominative,
  • (s) existing in name only
    • the nominal (or titular) head of his party
    titular,

Nouns

Synonyms

nominal phrase noun phrase token tokenish nominative titular

Antonyms

real

Words of close approximity

nominee
nominal aphasia nominal damages nominal head nominalism nominalist nominalistic nominally nominal phrase nominal value