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[ gruh-mat-i-kuhl ] / grəˈmæt ɪ kəl / SEE SYNONYMS FOR grammatical ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectiveof or relating to grammar: grammatical analysis. conforming to standard usage: grammatical speech. Origin of grammatical1520–30; <Latin grammatic(us) (<Greek grammatikós knowing one's letters, equivalent to grammat-, stem of grámma letter + -ikos-ic) + -al1 OTHER WORDS FROM grammaticalgram·mat·i·cal·ly, adverban·ti·gram·mat·i·cal, adjectivean·ti·gram·mat·i·cal·ly, adverban·ti·gram·mat·i·cal·ness, noun hy·per·gram·mat·i·cal, adjectivehy·per·gram·mat·i·cal·ly, adverbhy·per·gram·mat·i·cal·ness, noun Words nearby grammaticalgrammalogue, grammar, grammarian, grammar school, grammar-translation method, grammatical, grammatical gender, grammaticality, grammaticalize, grammatical meaning, grammaticism Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for grammaticalThe fact that some prescriptive rules are valuable does not mean that every grammatical injunction should be obeyed. Go Ahead, End With a Preposition: Grammar Rules We All Can Live With|Nick Romeo|November 3, 2014|DAILY BEAST The current issue is also filled with dozens of grammatical errors and spelling mistakes. It Was All a Dream: Drama, Bullshit, and the Rebirth of The Source Magazine|Alex Suskind|October 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST On the other hand, the grammatical errors and similarities to the Gospel of Thomas are still a problem. The ‘Gospel of Jesus’s Wife’ is Still as Big a Mystery as Ever|Candida Moss|April 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST The clash of English with the grammatical form of the Irish language gave it new color and shape. How I Write: Paul Lynch|Noah Charney|December 18, 2013|DAILY BEAST
What the diatribe lacked in grammatical proficiency, it made up for in drama. Netflix Promises More ‘Arrested Development,’ Batman Prequel Coming to Fox|Culture Team|September 25, 2013|DAILY BEAST In all these cases the Scots adjective is invariable; the final e, which often occurs, is of no grammatical significance. In vain we search them for the grammatical categories either of our own or of other spoken languages—none may be found. Elements of Folk Psychology|Wilhelm Wundt Accordingly, it marks a sudden, or abrupt, change in the grammatical structure of a sentence. A word or group of words that has no grammatical connection with the sentence in which it stands is called an independent element. An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises|George Lyman Kittredge A full discussion of these grammatical details can be found in the leading commentaries on the Apocalypse. A Harmony of the Gospels for Students of the Life of Christ|Archibald Thomas Robertson
British Dictionary definitions for grammatical
adjectiveof or relating to grammar (of a sentence) well formed; regarded as correct and acceptable by native speakers of the language Derived forms of grammaticalgrammatically, adverbgrammaticalness, nounCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to grammaticallinguistic, semantic, acceptable, allowable, correct, morphological, phonological, syntactic, well-formed |