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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Grammatical \Gram*mat"ic*al\, adjective [L. grammaticus, grammaticalis; Gr. ? skilled in grammar, knowing one's letters, from ? a letter: cf. F. grammatical. See {Grammar}.]
1. Of or pertaining to grammar; of the nature of grammar; as, a grammatical rule.
2. According to the rules of grammar; grammatically correct; as, the sentence is not grammatical; the construction is not grammatical. --{Gram*mat"ic*al*ly}, adverb -- {Gram*mat"ic*al*ness}, noun
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
grammatical
adjective
1: of or pertaining to grammar; "the grammatic structure of a sentence"; "grammatical rules"; "grammatical gender" [syn: {grammatic}]
2: conforming to the rules of grammar or usage accepted by native speakers; "spoke in grammatical sentences" [syn: {well-formed}] [ant: {ungrammatical}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
40 Moby Thesaurus words for "grammatical": adjectival, adverbial, attributive, conjunctive, copulative, correct, descriptive, formal, functional, glossematic, glottochronological, grammatic, graphemic, intransitive, lexicographic, lexicological, lexicostatistical, lingual, linguistic, linking, metalinguistic, morphological, morphophonemic, nominal, participial, philological, phonemic, phonetic, phonological, postpositional, prepositional, pronominal, psycholinguistic, semantic, structural, substantive, syntactic, tagmemic, transitive, verbal
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