grammatical

[ gruh-mat-i-kuhl ]
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adjective
  1. of or relating to grammar: grammatical analysis.

  2. conforming to standard usage: grammatical speech.

Origin of grammatical

1
1520–30; <Latin grammatic(us) (<Greek grammatikós knowing one's letters, equivalent to grammat-, stem of grámma letter + -ikos-ic) + -al1

Other words from grammatical

  • gram·mat·i·cal·ly, adverb
  • an·ti·gram·mat·i·cal, adjective
  • an·ti·gram·mat·i·cal·ly, adverb
  • an·ti·gram·mat·i·cal·ness, noun
  • hy·per·gram·mat·i·cal, adjective
  • hy·per·gram·mat·i·cal·ly, adverb
  • hy·per·gram·mat·i·cal·ness, noun

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British Dictionary definitions for grammatical

grammatical

/ (ɡrəˈmætɪkəl) /


adjective
  1. of or relating to grammar

  2. (of a sentence) well formed; regarded as correct and acceptable by native speakers of the language

Derived forms of grammatical

  • grammatically, adverb
  • grammaticalness, noun

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