textual
/ˈtɛks.tju.əl/
textual adjective: of or pertaining to textuality.
Adjective
textual (comparative more textual, superlative most textual)
- Of or pertaining to textuality.
- On any given Friday night at the Claremont Colleges, between 15 and 20 Jewish students gather to sing wordless melodies, dive into textual study of Talmud or James Baldwin, or hold workshops on antisemitism.2019 July 3, Jess Schwalb, “Red Line Rebellion”, in Jewish Currents, archived from the original on 02 Jul 2022
- Of or pertaining to text as opposed to other document elements.
- I see that the editor revised the document's metadata, headers, and images, but I don't see any textual changes.
- Pertaining to text messages, by analogy with sexual: textual harassment, textual intercourse; compare sexting.
textual meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Gujarati and Nepali
textual in Hindi
- पाठगत
textual in Urdu
- درسی
textual in Gujarati
- લખાણાત્મક
textual in Nepali
- पाठगत
More languagesFewer languages
- textual in Indonesian
- tekstual
Examples of textual in a sentence
- Confronted now with a growing list of unhelpful textual clues, Mr. Pereida seeks to shift ground.
- Since we built the website with graceful degradation in mind, it will replace animations with textual cues if JavaScript is not available.
- The only way to know Shakespeare is through his works, and his works are textual quagmires.
Forms of textual
| comparative | more textual |
|---|---|
| superlative | most textual |
| alternative form (obsolete) | textuall |
Origin of textual
From Middle English textewell, textueel, textuel, textuele, tixtuel (“learned in texts, bookish”), possibly from Latin textuālis; also compare Middle French textuele; or perhaps a coinage by Chaucer from Latin textus and Middle English -el. English spelling conformed to Latin from late 15c. By surface analysis, text + -ual.
Words formed from textual
- antitextual
- atextual
- cotextual
- countertextual
- cybertextual
- extratextual
- hypertextual
- intertextual
- intratextual
- macrotextual
- metatextual
- microtextual
- nontextual
- peritextual
- polytextual
- pretextual
- textual criticism
- textualisation
- textualism
- textualist
- textualistic
- textuality
- textualization
- textualize
- textually
- untextual
Phrases with textual
Questions about textual
- What does textual mean?
- Textual means of or pertaining to textuality.
- What is textual in Hindi?
- Textual in Hindi is पाठगत. See Textual meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is textual?
- Textual is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce textual?
- Textual is pronounced /ˈtɛks.tju.əl/ (UK).
Words near textual in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: textual (page history and authors); textual (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); textual (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); textual (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); textual (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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