'Grammatical' definitions:
Definition of 'grammatical'
From: WordNet
adjective
Of or pertaining to grammar; "the grammatic structure of a sentence"; "grammatical rules"; "grammatical gender" [syn: grammatical, grammatic]
adjective
Conforming to the rules of grammar or usage accepted by native speakers; "spoke in grammatical sentences" [syn: grammatical, well-formed] [ant: ill-formed, ungrammatical]
Definition of 'Grammatical'
From: GCIDE
- Grammatical \Gram*mat"ic*al\, a. [L. grammaticus, grammaticalis; Gr. ? skilled in grammar, knowing one's letters, from ? a letter: cf. F. grammatical. See Grammar.]
- 1. Of or pertaining to grammar; of the nature of grammar; as, a grammatical rule. [1913 Webster]
- 2. According to the rules of grammar; grammatically correct; as, the sentence is not grammatical; the construction is not grammatical. --{Gram*mat"ic*al*ly}, adv. -- {Gram*mat"ic*al*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'grammatical'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- adjectival,
- adverbial,
- attributive,
- conjunctive,
- copulative,
- correct,
- descriptive,
- formal,
- functional,
- glossematic,
- glottochronological,
- grammatic,
- graphemic,
- intransitive,
- lexicographic,
- lexicological,
- lexicostatistical,
- lingual,
- linguistic,
- linking,
- metalinguistic,
- morphological,
- morphophonemic,
- nominal,
- participial,
- philological,
- phonemic,
- phonetic,
- phonological,
- postpositional,
- prepositional,
- pronominal,
- psycholinguistic,
- semantic,
- structural,
- substantive,
- syntactic,
- tagmemic,
- transitive,
- verbal