1. consisting of or containing only one morpheme
Usage: linguistics

Examples

• The word ‘cat’ is monomorphemic because it cannot be broken down into smaller meaningful parts.
• Simple words like ‘run’ and ‘book’ are typically monomorphemic.
• Linguists classify ‘dog’ as a monomorphemic word.
• Most basic nouns in English are monomorphemic.
• The researcher studied monomorphemic words in child language acquisition.
• Unlike ‘unhappy,’ the word ‘sad’ is monomorphemic.