grammatical
/ɡɹəˈmæt.ɪ.kəl/
grammatical adjective: not breaching any constraints of the grammar, or morpho-syntax, of the relevant language.
Adjective
grammatical (comparative more grammatical, superlative most grammatical)
- Not breaching any constraints of the grammar, or morpho-syntax, of the relevant language.
- Your writing in English is not grammatical enough for publication, so we will hire an editor to fix it where necessary while preserving the intended meaning.
- These unidiomatic utterances are easily comprehensible but are not grammatical.
- Synonyms:
- grammatic
- Antonyms:
- ungrammatical, agrammatical, ungrammatic
- Of or pertaining to grammar.
- The writing was measured for both grammatical complexity and accuracy factors.
- Synonyms:
- grammatic
grammatical meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali
grammatical in Hindi
- व्याकरणिक, व्याकरणात्मक
grammatical in Marathi
- व्याकरणात्मक, व्याकरणविषयक
grammatical in Urdu
- گرائمیکل, گرائمرٹیکل
grammatical in Bengali
- ব্যাকরণগত, ব্যাকরণসম্মত
More languagesFewer languages
- grammatical in Telugu
- వ్యాకరణపరం
- grammatical in Malayalam
- വെെയാകരണ, വ്യാകരണപരമായ, ശാബ്ദിക, വ്യാകരണനിയമപരമായ
- grammatical in Kannada
- ವೈಯಾಕರಣ vaiyākaraṇa
- grammatical in Punjabi
- ਵਿਆਕਰਣ ਸੰਬੰਧੀ, ਵਿਆਕਰਣਿਕ
- grammatical in Gujarati
- વ્યાકરણની, વ્યાકરણાત્મક
- grammatical in Odia
- ବ୍ଯ଼ାକରଣଗତ, ବ୍ଯ଼ାକରଣିକ, ବ୍ଯ଼ାକରଣ ସମ୍ବନ୍ଧୀଯ଼
- grammatical in Sanskrit
- वैयाकरण vaiyākaraṇa
- grammatical in Nepali
- व्याकरणिक, व्याकरणगत, व्याकरणात्मक
- grammatical in Arabic
- نَحْوِيّ naḥwiyy
- grammatical in Malay
- gramatis
- grammatical in Thai
- ตามไวยากรณ์ dtaam wai-yaa-gɔɔn
Examples of grammatical in a sentence
- The gradability of adjectives has important consequences for their grammatical behaviour.
- This sentence is grammatical; it is just not felicitous.
- The grammatical cases nominative and accusative are used for subject resp. direct object in many languages, including Latin.
Synonyms of grammatical
Antonyms
Forms of grammatical
| comparative | more grammatical |
|---|---|
| superlative | most grammatical |
Origin of grammatical
From Middle French grammatical, from Latin grammaticālis.
Words formed from grammatical
- antegrammatical
- antigrammatical
- cryptogrammatical
- extragrammatical
- grammatical alternation
- grammatical aspect
- grammatical case
- grammatical category
- grammatical gender
- grammaticality
- grammaticalization
- grammaticalize
- grammatically
- grammatical mood
- grammaticalness
- grammatical person
- grammatical word
- historical-grammatical
- historico-grammatical
- hypergrammatical
- lexicogrammatical
- metagrammatical
- neogrammatical
- nongrammatical
- paragrammatical
- subgrammatical
Phrases with grammatical
Questions about grammatical
- What does grammatical mean?
- Grammatical means not breaching any constraints of the grammar, or morpho-syntax, of the relevant language.
- What is grammatical in Hindi?
- Grammatical in Hindi is व्याकरणिक, व्याकरणात्मक. See Grammatical meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is grammatical?
- Grammatical is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce grammatical?
- Grammatical is pronounced /ɡɹəˈmæt.ɪ.kəl/.
Words near grammatical in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: grammatical (page history and authors); grammatical (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); grammatical (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); grammatical (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); grammatical (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); grammatical (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); grammatical (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); ವೈಯಾಕರಣ (Kannada) (page history and authors); grammatical (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); grammatical (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); grammatical (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); वैयाकरण (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); grammatical (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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