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adjective \liŋ-ˈgwis-tik\Definition of LINGUISTIC
: of or relating to language or linguistics
— lin·guis·ti·cal·ly \-ti-k(ə-)lē\ adverb
See Variants of LINGUISTIC
lin·guis·tic also lin·guis·ti·cal \-ti-kəl\
Examples of LINGUISTIC
- <the age at which children begin to acquire linguistic skills>
First Known Use of LINGUISTIC
1827
Related to LINGUISTIC
- Synonyms
- lexical, verbal (also linguistical), rhetorical (also rhetoric), vocabular, wordy
- Antonyms
- nonlexical, nonlinguistic, nonverbal
Other Grammar and Linguistics Terms
Rhymes with LINGUISTIC
artistic, autistic, ballistic, Buddhistic, cladistic, cubistic, deistic, ekistic, eristic, faunistic, floristic, heuristic, holistic, hubristic, juristic, logistic, meristic, monistic, patristic, phlogistic, puristic, simplistic, sophistic, statistic, stylistic, Taoistic, theistic, Thomistic, touristic, tropistic, truistic, veristic, Yahwistic
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