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linguistic
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, voicefulROGET 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.For further exploring for "linguistic" in Webster Dictionary Online