Dictionary Definition
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"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- /lɪŋˈɡwɪstɪk/
- /lIN"gwIstIk/
Adjective
- relating to language or linguistics
Derived terms
Extensive Definition
Linguistic may refer to:
- Natural language, human language that is spoken, written, or signed for general communication
- Linguistics, the scientific study of human language
See also:
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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