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semantic
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective semantic has 1 sense
CIDE DICTIONARY
semantic, n. sing. [Gr. shmantikos having meaning, from sh^ma a sign.].
- pertaining to the meanings of words. [PJC]
- of or pertaining to semantics. [PJC]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
semantic, adj. relating to meaning in language; relating to the connotations of words.
Derivative
semantically adv.
Etymology
F s{eacute}mantique f. Gk semantikos significant f. semaino signify f. sema sign
THESAURUS
semantic
connotative, demonstrative, denominative, denotative, descriptive, designative, diagnostic, emblematic, evidential, exhibitive, expressive, figural, figurative, glossematic, glottochronological, grammatic, graphemic, iconic, identifying, ideographic, idiosyncratic, implicative, indicating, indicative, indicatory, individual, lexemic, lexical, lexicographic, lexicological, lexicostatistical, lingual, linguistic, meaningful, metalinguistic, metaphorical, morphemic, morphological, morphophonemic, naming, pathognomonic, peculiar, philological, phonemic, phonetic, phonological, phrasal, psycholinguistic, representative, semantological, semasiological, sememic, semiotic, signalizing, significant, significative, signifying, structural, suggestive, symbolic, symbolistic, symbological, symptomatic, symptomatologic, syntactic, typical, verbal
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