syntactic
/sɪnˈtæktɪk/
syntactic adjective: of, related to or connected with syntax.
Adjective
syntactic (comparative more syntactic, superlative most syntactic)
- Of, related to or connected with syntax.
- The sentence “I saw he” contains a syntactic mistake.
- the rules specifying how agglutinative morphemes are combined with each other are more syntactic than morphological by their nature and thus are closer to rules specifying how word-forms are combined with each other.2001, Martin Haspelmath, Language Typology and Language Universals: An International Handbook, page 674
- Synonyms:
- syntactical
- Containing morphemes that are combined in the same order as they would be if they were separate words e.g. greenfinch
syntactic meaning in Tagalog
syntactic in Tagalog
- of, related to or connected with syntax
- palaugnayin
Examples of syntactic in a sentence
- In the sentences "It is a hammer that is needed." and "There are hammers in the toolbox.", both "it" and "there" are syntactic expletives.
- The most common syntactic metalanguage adopted in the computing world is Extended Backus-Naur Form (EBNF).
- Here, we identify that the syntactic reduction introduces an error and falsefully declares some specifications as unrealizable.
Synonyms of syntactic
Forms of syntactic
| comparative | more syntactic |
|---|---|
| superlative | most syntactic |
Origin of syntactic
From New Latin syntacticus, from Ancient Greek συντακτικός (suntaktikós).
Words formed from syntactic
- antisyntactic
- asyntactic
- grammaticosyntactic
- lexicosyntactic
- macrosyntactic
- metasyntactic
- microsyntactic
- morphosyntactic
- nanosyntactic
- nonsyntactic
- postsyntactic
- protosyntactic
- syntactically
- syntactic expletive
- syntactician
- syntacticise
- syntacticism
- syntacticist
- syntacticize
- syntactic middle voice
- syntactic salt
- syntactic sugar
- unsyntactic
Phrases with syntactic
Words that rhyme with syntactic
- galactic
- didactic
- prophylactic
- tactic
- lactic
- nongalactic
- phonotactic
- backtick
- chiropractic
- factic
- graphotactic
- nonprophylactic
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Questions about syntactic
- What does syntactic mean?
- Syntactic means of, related to or connected with syntax.
- What is syntactic in Tagalog?
- Syntactic in Tagalog is palaugnayin. See Syntactic meaning in Tagalog.
- What part of speech is syntactic?
- Syntactic is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce syntactic?
- Syntactic is pronounced /sɪnˈtæktɪk/.
Words near syntactic in the dictionary
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