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linguistic

adjective

liŋ-ˈgwi-stik How to pronounce linguistic (audio)
variants also linguistical
Definition of linguisticnext
as in verbal
of or relating to words or language the age at which children begin to acquire linguistic skills

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Recent Examples of linguistic The Brussels governing system is notoriously splintered along linguistic communities, which is one reason the Brussels-Capital Region failed to form a new government between June 2024 and February 2026. — Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 10 Sep. 2026 The linguistic taxonomy is coeval with a broader demographic shift. — E. Alex Jung, Vulture, 8 Sep. 2026 The city sits on a linguistic frontier between Latin and Germanic, two branches of the Indo-European language family. — Benjamin Moser, Travel + Leisure, 8 Sep. 2026 If the two Death Valleys required decades of heat, winning, noise, folklore and linguistic drift to establish their names, another of college football’s most enduring monikers arrived with far less mystery. — Ira Gorawara, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for linguistic
Recent Examples of Synonyms for linguistic
  1. verbal
  2. communicative
  3. lexical
  4. rhetorical
Adjective
  • That is where this modern minimalist verbal style comes from.
    — Louis Menand, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2026
  • Wilson said that Ghost broke verbal agreements over writing credits and a soundtrack album deal.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of verbal
Adjective
  • The article suggests that social storytelling is what enabled us to surpass the communicative abilities of other living apes, into the rich, expressive tapestry of human language.
    — Hannah Little, Scientific American, 20 Sep. 2026
  • This means being communicative, proactive and disciplined in the engagement.
    — Ashish Agarwal, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of communicative
Adjective
  • Further complicating the mustelids’ lexical family tree, the Haida ermine, found on islands off the Pacific Northwest coast, was also once considered a subspecies of the common stoat, but is now recognized as its own species.
    — Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Laborious yet lithe lads and lasses have loyally leapt to luminate the lexical labyrinths of logic locking the lucrative lotto, longing to lure the lavish luxury lying latently in local landmarks.
    — Jared Kaufman, Twin Cities, 28 Jan. 2026
Definition of lexical
Adjective
  • The latest Piker rhetorical bomb El-Sayed had to dodge was the streamer’s assertion in an interview with Axios, excerpts of which were posted Thursday, that the United States is more of a fomenter of terrorism than al-Qaeda.
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 18 Sep. 2026
  • By retaining too much of the play’s rhetorical architecture, the film turns a provocative dramatic premise into something closer to an illustrated thesis.
    — Beandrea July, IndieWire, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of rhetorical

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“Linguistic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/linguistic. Accessed 22 Sep. 2026.

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