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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The grammatical solecism of the title isn’t the only vaguely—or not so vaguely—irksome element of “The Disappear,” a new play written and directed by Erica Schmidt being presented at the Minetta Lane Theatre.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026
For one thing, such groups tend to have intellectual underpinning which means they write grammatical and properly spelled French.
From BBC • Apr. 17, 2025
Rachel Syme’s foreword to the musical book says that this version of “Ironic” turns it into “an inside joke about poetic license and grammatical errors.”
From Salon • Nov. 29, 2024
The finding, based on experiments with 2-year-olds, suggests that even very young kids are capable of absorbing grammatical cues from language and leveraging that information to acquire new words.
From Science Daily • Nov. 21, 2024
Gender, a grammatical term for “kind,” describes the ways some languages categorize nouns and pronouns as masculine, feminine, or neuter.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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