textual

[teks-choo-uhl]

adjective

1. of or relating to a text.

   textual errors.

2. based on or conforming to the text, as of the Scriptures.

   a textual interpretation of the Bible.

textual

/ ˈtɛkstjʊəl /

adjective

1. of or relating to a text or texts

2. based on or conforming to a text

Other Word Forms

• textually adverb
• intertextual adjective
• intertextually adverb
• nontextual adjective
• nontextually adverb
• untextual adjective
• untextually adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of textual¹

1350–1400; Middle English < Medieval Latin textu ( s ) ( text ) + -al ¹; replacing Middle English textuel < Middle French < Medieval Latin, as above

Example Sentences

A lot of it was kind of improvisational, both physically and textually.

From Los Angeles Times

Canadian officials even decided not to have a summit communique to avoid textual disputes dominating the gathering.

From BBC

They might be more engaged there through the video, the audio-visual element, compared with maybe just a textual element or a picture sort of format in something like Instagram.

From Salon

Next, the research team will look at an English corpus, or textual material from the 20th century, which contains 100 million words.

From Science Daily

“I felt his music was complex, beautiful, harmonically and textually varied,” says Coppola, “and interesting.”

From Los Angeles Times