atelic

The definition of atelic is a quality of a verb that shows that an action is incomplete.

(adjective)

An example of an atelic tense is used in the following sentence, "She is walking down the street," which shows that the action of walking is not yet finished.

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See atelic in Webster's New World College Dictionary

adjective

Linguis. imperfective

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