3 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

linguistic

adjective

1: consisting of or related to language; "linguistic behavior"; "a linguistic atlas"; "lingual diversity" [syn: {lingual}] [ant: {nonlinguistic}]

2: of or relating to the scientific study of language; "linguistic theory"

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:

Linguistic \Lin*guis"tic\ (l[i^][ng]*gw[i^]s"t[i^]k), Linguistical \Lin*guis"tic*al\ (l[i^][ng]*gw[i^]s"t[i^]*kal), adjective [Cf. F. linguistique.] Of or pertaining to language; relating to linguistics, or to the affinities of languages.

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

55 Moby Thesaurus words for "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

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