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Lexical

//ˈlɛksɪkəl// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Concerning the vocabulary, words, sentences or morphemes of a language. not-comparable

    "So, it seems clear that the idiosyncratic restrictions relating to the range of complements which a Preposition does or does not permit are directly analo- gous to the parallel restrictions which hold in the case of Verbs. The restric- tions concerned are not categorial in nature (i.e. they are not associated with every single item belonging to a given category): on the contrary, they are lexical in nature (that is to say, they are properties of individual lexical items, so that different words belonging to the same category permit a different range of complements)."

  2. 2
    Concerning lexicography or a lexicon or dictionary. not-comparable
  3. 3
    Denoting a content word as opposed to a function word. not-comparable

    "a lexical verb"

  4. 4
    Relating to alphabetical order or a generalization thereof. not-comparable
Adjective
  1. 1
    of or relating to words wordnet
  2. 2
    of or relating to dictionaries wordnet

Etymology

From Latin lexis, from Ancient Greek λέξις (léxis, “word”) + -al.

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