English Explanatory Dictionary

linguistic

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Of or relating to language.
  2. Of or relating to linguistics.
  3. Relating to a computer language.

Pronunciation

/lɪŋˈɡwɪstɪk/ en-us-linguistic.ogg

Word forms

linguistic

Etymology

Borrowed from German linguistisch, equivalent to linguist + -ic. Compare linguistics. Ultimately from Latin lingua (“tongue, language”). Attested in English since 1825.

Synonyms

linguistical

Antonyms

unlinguistic

Related words

lingua lingual linguality lingually linguicism linguicist linguicistic linguicistical linguicistically linguiform linguisticality linguistically neurolinguistic programming neuro-linguistic programming

Derived words

anilinguistic anthropolinguistic biolinguistic counterlinguistic cross-linguistic crosslinguistic cunnilinguistic cyberlinguistic demolinguistic ecolinguistic epilinguistic ethnolinguistic Eurolinguistic extralinguistic geolinguistic interlinguistic intralinguistic linguism linguistical linguistically linguistic anthropology linguistic atlas linguistic distance linguistic diversity index linguistic ecology linguistician linguistic imbalance linguisticization linguisticize linguisticky linguistic landscape linguistic map linguistics linguistic terrain linguistic turn linguistic unit logico-linguistic logicolinguistic macrolinguistic metalinguistic microlinguistic monolinguistic multilinguistic neolinguistic neuro-linguistic neurolinguistic nonlinguistic numerolinguistic paedolinguistic palaeolinguistic paleolinguistic panlinguistic paralinguistic patholinguistic pedolinguistic postlinguistic prelinguistic protolinguistic pseudolinguistic psycholinguistic
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