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grammatical
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective grammatical has 2 senses
- grammatical(a = adj.pert) grammatic - of or pertaining to grammar; "the grammatic structure of a sentence"; "grammatical rules"; "grammatical gender" Derived form noun grammar1
- grammatical(a = adj.all) well-formed - conforming to the rules of grammar or usage accepted by native speakers; "spoke in grammatical sentences" Derived form noun grammar1
Antonym: ungrammatical
CIDE DICTIONARY
grammatical, a. [L. grammaticus, grammaticalis; Gr. skilled in grammar, knowing one's letters, from a letter: cf. F. grammatical. See Grammar.].
- Of or pertaining to grammar; of the nature of grammar; as, a grammatical rule. [1913 Webster]
- According to the rules of grammar; grammatically correct; as, the sentence is not grammatical; the construction is not grammatical.
OXFORD DICTIONARY
grammatical, adj.
1 a of or relating to grammar. b determined by grammar, esp. by form or inflection (grammatical gender).
2 conforming to the rules of grammar, or to the formal principles of an art, science, etc.
1 a of or relating to grammar. b determined by grammar, esp. by form or inflection (grammatical gender).
2 conforming to the rules of grammar, or to the formal principles of an art, science, etc.
Derivative
grammatically adv. grammaticalness n.
Etymology
F grammatical or LL grammaticalis f. L grammaticus f. Gk grammatikos (as GRAMMAR)
THESAURUS
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
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