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quasilinguistic

quasilinguistic adjective: having, or appearing to have, certain aspects or properties of linguistics; apparently, but not actually, linguistic.

Adjective

quasilinguistic (comparative more quasilinguistic, superlative most quasilinguistic)

  1. Having, or appearing to have, certain aspects or properties of linguistics; apparently, but not actually, linguistic.
    • Following the Gardners' lead, several other scientists have trained other great apes to use a quasilinguistic communication system.1996, Stuart Hirschberg, Essential strategies of argument

Forms of quasilinguistic

comparativemore quasilinguistic
superlativemost quasilinguistic

Origin of quasilinguistic

From quasi- + linguistic.

Questions about quasilinguistic

What does quasilinguistic mean?
Quasilinguistic means having, or appearing to have, certain aspects or properties of linguistics; apparently, but not actually, linguistic.
What part of speech is quasilinguistic?
Quasilinguistic is an adjective.

Words near quasilinguistic in the dictionary

  1. quasilinearisation
  2. quasilinearisations
  3. quasilinearity
  4. quasilinearizations
  5. quasilinearly
  6. quasilinguistic
  7. quasiliteracy
  8. quasiliterate
  9. quasiliterates
  10. quasilocal
  11. quasilocalized

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