Word.ws English Dictionary

linguistic

Syllables: lin·guis·ticUK/lɪŋˈɡwɪstɪk/

linguistic adjective: of or relating to language.

Adjective

linguistic (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to language.
    • Along with the Hebrew language, the grammatical knowledge of which was greatly advanced by him, he now devoted himself to the study of a variety of languages[…] In the year 1800 he was invited to go to Halle as an ordinary professor of theology and Oriental literature. Without giving up his...1848, George Long, “Vater, Johan Severin”, in The Penny Cyclopædia, volume 26, page 152
    • Swearing doesn't just mean what we now understand by "dirty words". It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths.2013 June 14, Sam Leith, “Where the profound meets the profane”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 37
    Antonyms:
    unlinguistic
  2. Of or relating to linguistics.
    • We have argued that the ability to make judgments about well-formedness and structure holds at all four major linguistic levels — Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, and Semantics.1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 50
    Antonyms:
    unlinguistic
  3. Relating to a computer language.
    • The message is that we need language features that deal with schematic and linguistic discrepancies.1993, Dimitris N. Chorafas, Manufacturing Databases and Computer Integrated Systems, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 114
    Antonyms:
    unlinguistic

linguistic meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

linguistic in Hindi

of or relating to language
भाषाई bhāṣāī

linguistic in Tamil

மொழியியல்

linguistic in Urdu

of or relating to language
لسانی lisānī

linguistic in Bengali

of or relating to language
ভাষাবৈজ্ঞানিকk bhaśabōiggênikk, ভাষাগত bhaśagoto
More languagesFewer languages
linguistic in Malayalam
ഭാഷാസംബന്ധിയായ, ഭാഷാശാസ്ത്രപരമായ, പദങ്ങളുടെ അർത്ഥങ്ങളെ സംബന്ധിച്ച, പദാർത്ഥപരമായ
linguistic in Kannada
ನುಡಿಯ, ಸೊಲ್ಲರಿಮೆಯ, ಭಾಷಾವ್ಯಾಸಂಗದ, ಭಾಷಾಧ್ಯಯನದ
linguistic in Assamese
ভাষাবৈজ্ঞানিক bhaxaboigganik
linguistic in Pashto
ژبنی žǝbanáy, لساني lesāní
linguistic in Arabic
لُغَوِيّ luḡawiyy, لِسَانِيّ lisāniyy
linguistic in Malay
bahasa, linguistik
linguistic in Indonesian
linguistik, bahasa
linguistic in Persian
زبانی zabâni, لسانی lesâni
linguistic in Thai
ภาษา paa-sǎa
linguistic in Vietnamese
ngôn ngữ
linguistic in Myanmar
ဘာသာစကား bhasaca.ka:

Examples of linguistic in a sentence

  • Only three in five Assamese (citizens of Assam) are linguistic Assamese.
  • I have a particularly off-putting predilection for the utilization of ponderously polysyllabic linguistic constructions.
  • For quotations using this term, see Citations:linguistic map.

All 40 example sentences with linguistic

Synonyms of linguistic

Antonyms

Origin of linguistic

Borrowed from German linguistisch, equivalent to linguist + -ic. Compare linguistics. Ultimately from Latin lingua (“tongue, language”). Attested in English since 1825.

Words formed from linguistic

Phrases with linguistic

Words that rhyme with linguistic

29 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about linguistic

What does linguistic mean?
Linguistic means of or relating to language.
What is linguistic in Hindi?
Linguistic in Hindi is भाषाई (bhāṣāī). See Linguistic meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is linguistic?
Linguistic is an adjective.
How do you pronounce linguistic?
Linguistic is pronounced /lɪŋˈɡwɪstɪk/ (UK).

Words near linguistic in the dictionary

  1. linguipotence
  2. linguism
  3. linguist
  4. linguister
  5. linguisters
  6. linguistic
  7. linguistic anthropology
  8. linguistic distance
  9. linguistic diversity index
  10. linguistic ecology
  11. linguistic imbalance

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: linguistic (page history and authors); linguistic (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); linguistic (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); linguistic (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ভাষাবৈজ্ঞানিক (Assamese) (page history and authors). 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.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: en-us-linguistic.ogg.

Cite this entry: “linguistic.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/linguistic. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.