syntactically
syntactically adverb: according to the rules of syntax.
Adverb
syntactically (comparative more syntactically, superlative most syntactically)
- According to the rules of syntax.
- The sentence was syntactically correct, but made no sense.
- Thus, there is a third kind of judgment, which we shall call characterization. The wa-phrase and ga-phrase serve syntactically to distinguish predicational judgment not only from nonpredicational description but also from characterizational judgment.1965 June 4, Shigeyuki Kuroda, “Generative grammatical studies in the Japanese language”, in DSpace@MIT, retrieved 24 Feb 2014
Forms of syntactically
| comparative | more syntactically |
|---|---|
| superlative | most syntactically |
Origin of syntactically
From syntactic + -ally.
Words formed from syntactically
Questions about syntactically
- What does syntactically mean?
- Syntactically means according to the rules of syntax.
- What part of speech is syntactically?
- Syntactically is an adverb.
Words near syntactically in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: syntactically (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:
Cite this entry: “syntactically.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/syntactically. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.