Word.ws English Dictionary

wordwise

wordwise adjective: of or characteristic of a word or words; verbal.

Adjective

wordwise (not comparable)

  1. Of or characteristic of a word or words; verbal.
    • Wordwise feedback produced significantly higher gains than listwise.1995, American Psychological Association, Psychological abstracts
    • Both the wordwise and sentencewise results are computed (in %) applied for the user state recognition in our case due to the construction of […]2006, Wolfgang Wahlster, SmartKom: foundations of multimodal dialogue systems
  2. In terms of words (fixed groups of binary digits); one word of data at a time.

Adverb

wordwise (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to, concerning, or regarding words; verbally.
    • Turn the page and get an edge in wordwise.2005, Charles Harrington Elster, What in the word?
  2. In terms of words (fixed groups of binary digits); one word of data at a time.

Origin of wordwise

From word + -wise.

Questions about wordwise

What does wordwise mean?
Wordwise means of or characteristic of a word or words; verbal.
What part of speech is wordwise?
Wordwise can be an adjective or an adverb.

Words near wordwise in the dictionary

  1. Wordsworthian
  2. Wordsworthianism
  3. Wordsworthianisms
  4. Wordsworthians
  5. Wordsworths
  6. wordwise
  7. wordwrap
  8. wordwrapped
  9. wordwrapping
  10. wordwraps
  11. wordy

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: wordwise (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: “wordwise.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/wordwise. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.