linguistic
Syllables: lin·guis·ticUK/lɪŋˈɡwɪstɪk/
linguistic adjective: of or relating to language.
Adjective
linguistic (not comparable)
- 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
- 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
- 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.
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
- anilinguistic
- anthropolinguistic
- biolinguistic
- counterlinguistic
- cross-linguistic
- crosslinguistic
- cunnilinguistic
- cyberlinguistic
- demolinguistic
- ecolinguistic
- epilinguistic
- ethnolinguistic
- Eurolinguistic
- extralinguistic
- geolinguistic
- interlinguistic
- intralinguistic
- linguism
- linguistical
- linguistically
- linguistic anthropology
- linguistic atlas
- linguistic distance
- linguistic diversity index
- linguistic ecology
- linguistician
- linguistic imbalance
- linguisticization
- linguisticize
- linguisticky
- linguistic landscape
- linguistic map
- linguistics
- linguistic terrain
- linguistic turn
- linguistic unit
- logico-linguistic
- logicolinguistic
- macrolinguistic
- metalinguistic
- microlinguistic
- monolinguistic
- multilinguistic
- neolinguistic
- neuro-linguistic
- neurolinguistic
- nonlinguistic
- numerolinguistic
- paedolinguistic
- palaeolinguistic
- paleolinguistic
- panlinguistic
- paralinguistic
- patholinguistic
- pedolinguistic
- postlinguistic
- prelinguistic
- protolinguistic
- pseudolinguistic
- psycholinguistic
Phrases with linguistic
Words that rhyme with linguistic
- artistic
- autistic
- characteristic
- atavistic
- ballistic
- heuristic
- pessimistic
- realistic
- cystic
- futuristic
- histic
- holistic
29 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- hypocoristic
- mystic
- optimistic
- activistic
- allistic
- altruistic
- cannibalistic
- criminalistic
- economistic
- epiphenomenalistic
- fistic
- heteroantagonistic
- hubristic
- hybristic
- infinitistic
- isoantagonistic
- jingoistic
- journalistic
- librettistic
- malistic
- mistic
- navalistic
- paralinguistic
- pistic
- retrofuturistic
- spiritistic
- supercalifragilistic
- surrealistic
- unartistic
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
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.
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