ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Syntactic

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Pronunciation /sɪnˈtæktɪk/ · Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Syntactic is an adjective meaning Of, related to or connected with syntax.

Meaning

Of, related to or connected with syntax.

More Meanings

  1. Containing morphemes that are combined in the same order as they would be if they were separate words e.g. greenfinch

Example Sentences

The sentence “I saw he” contains a syntactic mistake.
the rules specifying how agglutinative morphemes are combined with each other are more syntactic than morphological by their nature and thus are closer to rules specifying how word-forms are combined with each other.

Synonyms for syntactic

Depending on context, synonyms include syntactical.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include syntactical, syntax, grammatical, syntagmatic, morphosyntactic, morphological.

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