Linguistic

Quick meaning: Linguistic is an adjective meaning Of or relating to language.

Meaning

Of or relating to language.

More Meanings

1. Of or relating to linguistics.
2. (computing) Relating to a computer language.

Example Sentences

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

Swearing doesn't just mean what we now understand by "dirty words". It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths.

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.

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,

Synonyms for linguistic

Depending on context, synonyms include lingual.

Antonyms for linguistic

Common opposites include unlinguistic, nonlinguistic.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include lingual, speech, langue, language, philology, verbal.

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