adjective
- relating to or characterized by parataxis, the placing of clauses or phrases one after another without coordinating or subordinating connectives
Usage: grammar; linguistics
Examples
- The writer used a paratactic style, connecting ideas with simple conjunctions.
- Hemingway’s paratactic prose creates a direct, unadorned narrative voice.
- The poem’s paratactic structure lists images without explicit logical connections.
- Children often speak in paratactic sentences before mastering complex grammar.
- The paratactic construction ‘I came, I saw, I conquered’ emphasizes each action equally.
- Biblical Hebrew frequently employs paratactic coordination with ‘and’.