What part of speech is clustered?

Clustered can be categorized as a verb and an adjective.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. clustered is a verb, past participle of cluster (infinitive).
  • 2. clustered is a verb, past simple of cluster (infinitive).
  • 3. clustered is an adjective.

Inflections

Verb

Adjective

  • Positive
    Comparative
    Superlative
  • more clustered
    most clustered
  • Positive: clustered 
  • Comparative: more clustered
  • Superlative: most clustered

What does clustered mean?

Definitions

Adjective

clustered - growing close together but not in dense mats
clustered - clustered together but not coherent; "an agglomerated flower head"

Verb

cluster - come together as in a cluster or flock; "The poets constellate in this town every summer"
cluster - gather or cause to gather into a cluster; "She bunched her fingers into a fist"

Examples of clustered

#   Sentence  
1. verb They clustered around the fire.
2. verb The nymphs clustered around her and the child that lay asleep in her lap, with expressions of curiosity and delight.
3. verb The protons and neutrons cluster together in the center of the atom in what is called the nucleus. The electrons orbit around the nucleus.
4. verb The protons and neutrons cluster together in the center of the atom in what is called the nucleus. The electrons orbit around the nucleus.
Sentence  
verb
They clustered around the fire.
The nymphs clustered around her and the child that lay asleep in her lap, with expressions of curiosity and delight.
The protons and neutrons cluster together in the center of the atom in what is called the nucleus. The electrons orbit around the nucleus.
The protons and neutrons cluster together in the center of the atom in what is called the nucleus. The electrons orbit around the nucleus.

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