grammatical
Americanadjective
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of or relating to grammar.
grammatical analysis.
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conforming to standard usage.
grammatical speech.
adjective
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of or relating to grammar
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(of a sentence) well formed; regarded as correct and acceptable by native speakers of the language
Other Word Forms
- antigrammatical adjective
- antigrammatically adverb
- antigrammaticalness noun
- grammatically adverb
- grammaticalness noun
- hypergrammatical adjective
- hypergrammatically adverb
- hypergrammaticalness noun
Etymology
Origin of grammatical
1520–30; < Latin grammatic ( us ) (< Greek grammatikós knowing one's letters, equivalent to grammat-, stem of grámma letter + -ikos -ic ) + -al 1
Example Sentences
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“I wish you had let me review before sending…the grammatical errors and spelling mistakes will make it at least harder for early admission,” Epstein wrote.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026
Unlike languages such as French and Spanish, Yautja has no grammatical gender, so nouns aren’t assigned gender categories.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 10, 2025
For one thing, such groups tend to have intellectual underpinning which means they write grammatical and properly spelled French.
From BBC • Apr. 17, 2025
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.
From Salon • Jan. 8, 2025
Well, that attitude can get you tossed into grammatical purgatory.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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