'Syntactic' definitions:
Definition of 'syntactic'
From: WordNet
adjective
Of or relating to or conforming to the rules of syntax; "the syntactic rules of a language" [syn: syntactic, syntactical]
Definition of 'Syntactic'
From: GCIDE
- Syntactic \Syn*tac"tic\, Syntactical \Syn*tac"tic*al\, a. [Cf. G. ? putting together. See Syntax.] Of or pertaining to syntax; according to the rules of syntax, or construction. -- {Syn*tac"tic*al*ly}, adv. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'syntactic'
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,
- tagmemic,
- transitive,
- verbal