semantically

American  

[si-man-tik-lee] / sɪˈmæn tɪk li /

adverb

1. in a way that relates to the different meanings of words or other signs or symbols.

   Humans have developed languages that are semantically rich and can cope easily with philosophical concepts.

2. in a way that deliberately takes advantage of the connotations or associations attached to certain words.

   He deals with this bombing campaign semantically by saying it is “not a war” since there are “no hostile troops on the ground.”

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Other Word Forms

• nonsemantically
  adverb
• pseudosemantically
  adverb

Etymology

Origin of semantically

semantic ( def. ) + -ally ( def. )

Example Sentences

The bot then uses text snippets it finds that are semantically related to the question to get a more complete understanding of the context.

From Science Daily • Dec. 1, 2023

Developers have to feed the network a number of texts so that it learns which words appear in similar environments and are thus semantically similar.

From Scientific American • Jun. 15, 2023

But before we test said parameters, let's establish them, semantically.

From Salon • Dec. 11, 2021

Another part of that process is the iPhone semantically recognizing different things in the scene — things like faces, people, grass, sky, cats, or whatever and exposing them differently.

From The Verge • Sep. 21, 2021

Second, the two elements being compared should be grammatically and semantically parallel, a requirement that’s easy to flub when the first is complex.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker