[syn: grammatical, well-formed]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
grammatical
adj 1: of or pertaining to grammar; "the grammatic structure of
a sentence"; "grammatical rules"; "grammatical gender"
[syn: grammatical, grammatic]
2: conforming to the rules of grammar or usage accepted by
native speakers; "spoke in grammatical sentences" [syn:
grammatical, well-formed] [ant: ill-formed,
ungrammatical]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
40 Moby Thesaurus words for "grammatical":
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