- 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"
- insignificantly small; a matter of form only (`tokenish' is informal);
"the fee was nominal" "a token gesture of resistance" "a toknenish gesture"
- pertaining to a noun or to a word group that functions as a noun;
"nominal phrase" "noun phrase"
- of, relating to, or characteristic of an amount that is not adjusted for inflation;
"the nominal GDP" "nominal interest rates"
- named; bearing the name of a specific person;
"nominative shares of stock"
- existing in name only;
"the nominal (or titular) head of his party"