English Explanatory Dictionary

textual

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Of or pertaining to text.
  2. Of or pertaining to textuality.
  3. Of or pertaining to text as opposed to other document elements.
  4. Pertaining to text messages, by analogy with sexual: textual harassment, textual intercourse; compare sexting.

Pronunciation

/ˈtɛks.tju.əl/ /ˈtɛks.tʃu.əl/ /ˈtɛks.tʃəl/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-textual.wav

Word forms

textual more textual most textual textuall

Etymology

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.

Related words

contextual textuary

Derived words

antitextual atextual cotextual countertextual extratextual intertextual intratextual metatextual peritextual polytextual textual criticism textualism textuality textualize textually untextual

Translations

Afrikaans: tekstueel Asturian: testual Bulgarian: текстов Catalan: textual Danish: skriftlig Danish: tekstuel Dutch: tekstueel Esperanto: teksta Finnish: tekstuaalinen French: textuel Galician: textual German: textlich German: textuell Greek: κειμενικός Indonesian: tekstual Irish: téacsach Italian: testuale Kazakh: мәтіндік Norwegian Bokmål: tekstlig Polish: tekstowy Portuguese: textual Romanian: textual Russian: те́кстовый Russian: текстово́й Russian: текстуа́льный Spanish: textual Ukrainian: те́кстови́й
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