linguistic

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: lin=guis=tic

CIDE DICTIONARY

linguistic, a. [Cf. F. linguistique.].

 Of or pertaining to language; relating to linguistics, or to the affinities of languages.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

linguistic, adj. of or relating to language or the study of languages.

Derivative

linguistically adv.

THESAURUS

linguistic

answering, articulated, communicating, communicational, communional, conversational, descriptive, enunciated, glottochronological, grammatic, graphemic, interacting, interactional, interactive, intercommunicational, intercommunicative, intercommunional, interresponsive, interrogative, interrogatory, lexicographic, lexicological, lexicostatistical, lingual, metalinguistic, morphological, morphophonemic, nuncupative, oral, parol, philological, phonemic, phonetic, phonological, pronounced, psycholinguistic, questioning, responsive, said, semantic, sounded, speech, spoken, structural, syntactic, telepathic, transmissional, unwritten, uttered, verbal, viva voce, vocal, vocalized, voiced, voiceful

ROGET THESAURUS

linguistic

Language

N language, phraseology, speech, tongue, lingo, vernacular, mother tongue, vulgar tongue, native tongue, household words, King's English, Queen's English, dialect, confusion of tongues, Babel, pasigraphie, pantomime, onomatopoeia, betacism, mimmation, myatism, nunnation, pasigraphy, lexicology, philology, glossology, glottology, linguistics, chrestomathy, paleology, paleography, comparative grammar, literature, letters, polite literature, belles lettres, muses, humanities, literae humaniores, republic of letters, dead languages, classics, genius of language, scholarship, lingual, linguistic, dialectic, vernacular, current, bilingual, diglot, hexaglot, polyglot, literary, syllables govern the world.