adverbial

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   of or relating to or functioning as an adverb

   adverbial syntax

2. 2
   adj

   Of or relating to an adverb.

   As we can have the adjectival forms bright, brighter, brightest, so we can have the adverbial forms brightly, brightlier, brightliest, but degree is alike inconceivable in the adjective ‘round,’ and the A. ‘here.’

3. 3
   noun

   a word or group of words function as an adverb

4. 4
   noun

   An adverbial word or phrase.

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adverbiālis. By surface analysis, adverb + -ial.