Semantic

3 definitions found

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

  Semantic \Sem*an"tic\, Semantical \Sem*an"tic*al\, n. sing. or
     pl. [Gr. shmantikos having meaning, from sh^ma a sign.]
     1. pertaining to the meanings of words.
        [PJC]
  
     2. of or pertaining to semantics.


        [PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  semantic
       adj : of or relating to the study of meaning and changes of
             meaning; "semantic analysis"

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

  67 Moby Thesaurus words for "semantic":
     connotative, demonstrative, denominative, denotative, descriptive,
     designative, diagnostic, emblematic, evidential, exhibitive,
     expressive, figural, figurative, glossematic, glottochronological,
     grammatic, graphemic, iconic, identifying, ideographic,
     idiosyncratic, implicative, indicating, indicative, indicatory,
     individual, lexemic, lexical, lexicographic, lexicological,
     lexicostatistical, lingual, linguistic, meaningful, metalinguistic,
     metaphorical, morphemic, morphological, morphophonemic, naming,
     pathognomonic, peculiar, philological, phonemic, phonetic,
     phonological, phrasal, psycholinguistic, representative,
     semantological, semasiological, sememic, semiotic, signalizing,
     significant, significative, signifying, structural, suggestive,
     symbolic, symbolistic, symbological, symptomatic, symptomatologic,
     syntactic, typical, verbal