1.
[syn: linguistic, lingual]
2. of or relating to the scientific study of language;
- Example: "linguistic theory"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
linguistic
adj 1: consisting of or related to language; "linguistic
behavior"; "a linguistic atlas"; "lingual diversity"
[syn: linguistic, lingual] [ant: nonlinguistic]
2: of or relating to the scientific study of language;
"linguistic theory"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
55 Moby Thesaurus words for "linguistic":
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