textual

[ teks-choo-uhl ]

adjective

1. of or relating to a text:

   textual errors.

2. based on or conforming to the text, as of the Scriptures:

   a textual interpretation of the Bible.

textual

/ ˈtɛkstjʊəl /

adjective

1. of or relating to a text or texts
2. based on or conforming to a text

Derived Forms

• ˈtextually, adverb

Other Words From

• textu·al·ly adverb
• inter·textu·al adjective
• inter·textu·al·ly adverb
• non·textu·al adjective
• non·textu·al·ly adverb
• un·textu·al adjective
• un·textu·al·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of textual¹

1350–1400; Middle English < Medieval Latin textu ( s ) ( text ) + -al ¹; replacing Middle English textuel < Middle French < Medieval Latin, as above

Example Sentences

Only the validation of history could legitimate the enforcement of a non-textual constitutional right like the right of privacy.

From Time

The new blood rightly viewed this amorphous and anti-textual concept with great suspicion.

From Time

Rich results can include carousels, images, reviews, stars, drop down and other non-textual elements in the search results page.

From Search Engine Land

It has the ability to understand and bring solutions based not just on textual content but also an interpretation of images, videos, and podcasts in a way that was never possible before.

From Search Engine Watch

In the end, The Woman in the Window’s lessons are more meta than textual.

From Vox

All to see what kind of textual support might emerge, to endorse a reading of this dream.

From The Daily Beast

She talks punk, textual pleasure, Iceland, and her new book, The Faraway Nearby, with Lauren Elkin.

From The Daily Beast

They wink at Fitzgerald worshipers primed to hate any textual liberties.

From The Daily Beast

With bold authority and assertion, Calderon drew on the Jewish textual tradition in order to do—what?

From The Daily Beast

One textual arrow might seem to point in a different direction.

From The Daily Beast

There is considerable difficulty in the sixteenth verse, partly dogmatic, partly textual.

From Project Gutenberg

This long passage has a good many difficulties of detail, for the grammarian and the textual critic.

From Project Gutenberg

This passage abounds with grammatical and textual difficulties, but the general import and the purpose of it are plain.

From Project Gutenberg

Still, I find myself in agreement with him on some four or five points of textual coincidence in the two authors.

From Project Gutenberg

This is insipid and flat to the last degree: textual and psychological considerations combine to support the Revisers text.

From Project Gutenberg