'Linguistic' definitions:
Definition of 'linguistic'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Consisting of or related to language; "linguistic behavior"; "a linguistic atlas"; "lingual diversity" [syn: linguistic, lingual] [ant: nonlinguistic]
adjective
Of or relating to the scientific study of language; "linguistic theory"
Definition of 'Linguistic'
From: GCIDE
- Linguistic \Lin*guis"tic\ (l[i^][ng]*gw[i^]s"t[i^]k), Linguistical \Lin*guis"tic*al\ (l[i^][ng]*gw[i^]s"t[i^]*kal), a. [Cf. F. linguistique.] Of or pertaining to language; relating to linguistics, or to the affinities of languages. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'linguistic'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- answering,
- articulated,
- communicating,
- communicational,
- communional,
- conversational,
- descriptive,
- enunciated,
- glottochronological,
- grammatic,
- graphemic,
- interacting,
- interactional,
- interactive,
- intercommunicational,
- intercommunicative,
- intercommunional,
- interresponsive,
- interrogative,
- interrogatory,
- lexicographic,
- lexicological,
- lexicostatistical,
- lingual,
- metalinguistic,
- morphological,
- morphophonemic,
- nuncupative,
- oral,
- parol,
- philological,
- phonemic,
- phonetic,
- phonological,
- pronounced,
- psycholinguistic,
- questioning,
- responsive,
- said,
- semantic,
- sounded,
- speech,
- spoken,
- structural,
- syntactic,
- telepathic,
- transmissional,
- unwritten,
- uttered,
- verbal,
- viva voce,
- vocal,
- vocalized,
- voiced,
- voiceful
Words containing 'Linguistic'
- Linguist,
- Linguistical,
- Linguistically,
- Linguistics,
- computational linguist,
- computational linguistics,
- department of linguistics,
- descriptive linguistics,
- diachronic linguistics,
- historical linguistics,
- linguistic atlas,
- linguistic communication,
- linguistic competence,
- linguistic context,
- linguistic geography,
- linguistic performance,
- linguistic process,
- linguistic profiling,
- linguistic relation,
- linguistic rule,
- linguistic scientist,
- linguistic string,
- linguistic unit,
- linguistic universal,
- linguistics department,
- prescriptive linguistics,
- structural linguistics,
- synchronic linguistics,
- cross-linguistic,
- cross-linguistically