grammatically

adverb

gram·​mat·​i·​cal·​ly grə-ˈma-ti-k(ə-)lē 

: in a way pertaining to grammar : with regard to grammar or in accordance with grammatical rules

speaking grammatically

a grammatically complex sentence

Two Welsh men who were busted for possession of marijuana were spared jail time by a judge who commended their grammatically correct text messages.

—Rachel DeSantis

Just as we teach children how to ride bikes by putting them on a bicycle, we need to teach students how to write grammatically by letting them write.

—Michelle Navarre Cleary

Examples of grammatically in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

To write about the Earth like that meant showing it some respect, even if the form of my respect was not grammatically acceptable. —Literary Hub, 22 June 2026

Subordinate clauses, grammatically complete and correctly structured, showed up in nearly 13%. —Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 14 June 2026

And here’s one that some people are going to roll their eyes at: writing clearly and grammatically still really matters. —K. R. Callaway, Scientific American, 9 May 2026

Producing grammatically correct Indonesian, Arabic, Swahili or Hindi, however, does not change the underlying worldview through which these systems reason. —Gareth Barkin, The Conversation, 2 Apr. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for grammatically

• automatically
• democratically
• diplomatically
• enigmatically
• enzymatically
• kinematically
• programmatically
• symptomatically
• systematically
• thermostatically
• climatically
• dogmatically