grammatical

[gruh-mat-i-kuhl]

adjective

1. of or relating to grammar.

   grammatical analysis.

2. conforming to standard usage.

   grammatical speech.

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

Other Word Forms

• grammatically adverb
• antigrammatical adjective
• antigrammatically adverb
• antigrammaticalness noun
• hypergrammatical adjective
• hypergrammatically adverb
• hypergrammaticalness noun
• grammaticalness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of grammatical¹

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

Example Sentences

Accusations of AI use are concerning, sure, but couldn’t they also result in a grammatical Streisand effect of people learning about or becoming reacquainted with the multipurpose mark?

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But those who were contacted eventually questioned the source of information when the impersonator asked for a cash transfer and began to make grammatical errors or use language that did not seem consistent with Wiles’.

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For one thing, such groups tend to have intellectual underpinning which means they write grammatical and properly spelled French.

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With AI writing something as simple as a holiday greeting, we lose the charm in the occasional grammatical error, the typo and the silly dad joke.

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In an experiment with 35 native English-speaking adults, researchers tracked the brain activity of participants learning a miniature language called Mini Pinyin that is based on Mandarin but with similar grammatical rules to English.

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Related Words

• linguistic 
• semantic