Syntactically

adv

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Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    According to the rules of syntax.

    "The sentence was syntactically correct, but made no sense."

Adverb
  1. 1
    with respect to syntax wordnet

Example

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"This phrase is grammatically and syntactically correct, but it doesn't sound very English."

Etymology

From syntactic + -ally.

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