Grammatical

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Grammatical \Gram*mat"ic*al\, a. [L. grammaticus, grammaticalis;
     Gr. ? skilled in grammar, knowing one's letters, from ? a
     letter: cf. F. grammatical. See {Grammar}.]
     1. Of or pertaining to grammar; of the nature of grammar; as,
        a grammatical rule.
        [1913 Webster]


  
     2. According to the rules of grammar; grammatically correct;
        as, the sentence is not grammatical; the construction is
        not grammatical. --{Gram*mat"ic*al*ly}, adv. --
        {Gram*mat"ic*al*ness}, n.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  grammatical
       adj 1: of or pertaining to grammar; "the grammatic structure of a
              sentence"; "grammatical rules"; "grammatical gender"
              [syn: {grammatic}]
       2: conforming to the rules of grammar or usage accepted by
          native speakers; "spoke in grammatical sentences" [syn: {well-formed}]
          [ant: {ungrammatical}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  40 Moby Thesaurus words for "grammatical":
     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, syntactic,
     tagmemic, transitive, verbal