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syntactic

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Adjective

HYPHEN

syn=tac=tic

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective syntactic has 1 sense

syntactic(a = adj.pert) syntactical - of or relating to or conforming to the rules of syntax; "the syntactic rules of a language"

Derived forms noun syntax₁, noun syntax₃

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CIDE DICTIONARY

syntactic, a. [Cf. G. putting together. See Syntax.].

Of or pertaining to syntax; according to the rules of syntax, or construction. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

syntactic, adj. of or according to syntax.

Derivative

syntactical adj. syntactically adv.

Etymology

Gk suntaktikos (as SYNTAX)

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THESAURUS

syntactic

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

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