Linguistic

adj

adj ·3 syllables ·Moderate ·High school level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or relating to language. not-comparable

    "Along with the Hebrew language, the grammatical knowledge of which was greatly advanced by him, he now devoted himself to the study of a variety of languages[…] In the year 1800 he was invited to go to Halle as an ordinary professor of theology and Oriental literature. Without giving up his linguistic studies, he now devoted considerable time to the critical examination of the early books of the Old Testament,"

  2. 2
    Of or relating to linguistics. not-comparable

    "We have argued that the ability to make judgments about well-formedness and structure holds at all four major linguistic levels — Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, and Semantics."

  3. 3
    Relating to a computer language. not-comparable

    "The message is that we need language features that deal with schematic and linguistic discrepancies."

Adjective
  1. 1
    consisting of or related to language wordnet
  2. 2
    of or relating to the scientific study of language wordnet

Synonyms

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answeringarticulatedcommunicatingcommunicationalcommunionalconversational

Example

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"Linguistic competence is inborn, not acquired."

Etymology

Borrowed from German linguistisch, equivalent to linguist + -ic. Compare linguistics. Ultimately from Latin lingua (“tongue, language”). Attested in English since 1825.

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