Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (2)
1. consisting of or related to language;
- Example: "linguistic behavior"
- Example: "a linguistic atlas"
- Example: "lingual diversity"
[syn: linguistic, lingual]
2. of or relating to the scientific study of language;
- Example: "linguistic theory"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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), a. [Cf. F. linguistique.] Of or pertaining to language; relating to linguistics, or to the affinities of languages. [1913 Webster]Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
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

