Linguistic

3 definitions found

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

  Linguistic \Lin*guis"tic\ (l[i^][ng]*gw[i^]s"t[i^]k),
  Linguistical \Lin*guis"tic*al\ (l[i^][ng]*gw[i^]s"t[i^]*kal), a.
     [Cf. F. linguistique.]
     Of or pertaining to language; relating to linguistics, or to
     the affinities of languages.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  linguistic
       adj 1: consisting of or related to language; "linguistic behavior";
              "a linguistic atlas"; "lingual diversity" [syn: {lingual}]
              [ant: {nonlinguistic}]
       2: of or relating to the scientific study of language;
          "linguistic theory"

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

  55 Moby Thesaurus words for "linguistic":
     answering, articulated, communicating, communicational,
     communional, conversational, descriptive, enunciated,
     glottochronological, grammatic, graphemic, interacting,
     interactional, interactive, intercommunicational,
     intercommunicative, intercommunional, interresponsive,
     interrogative, interrogatory, lexicographic, lexicological,
     lexicostatistical, lingual, metalinguistic, morphological,
     morphophonemic, nuncupative, oral, parol, philological, phonemic,
     phonetic, phonological, pronounced, psycholinguistic, questioning,
     responsive, said, semantic, sounded, speech, spoken, structural,
     syntactic, telepathic, transmissional, unwritten, uttered, verbal,
     viva voce, vocal, vocalized, voiced, voiceful