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grammatical

American  
[gruh-mat-i-kuhl] / grəˈmæt ɪ kəl /

adjective

  1. of or relating to grammar.

    grammatical analysis.

  2. conforming to standard usage.

    grammatical speech.


grammatical British  
/ 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

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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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From The Wall Street Journal

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From BBC

One of the reasons Yautja has no grammatical gender is because that was most practical.

From Los Angeles Times

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?

From Salon

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’.

From Salon