linguistic
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Synonyms
lexical, rhetorical (also rhetoric), verbal, vocabular, wordy
Antonyms
nonlexical, nonlinguistic, nonverbal
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Russia still has a cultural, linguistic and political hold on Central Asia. — The Economist, "But their new partnership makes China a lot more equal than Russia," 25 July 2019 The 100 people laid off, effective Aug 16, are linguistic reviewers working from 785 Greens Parkway. — Andrea Leinfelder, Houston Chronicle, "Welocalize lays off 100 people in Houston," 27 Aug. 2019 Calvin Trillin travels to Ecuador and discovers a link between culinary and linguistic journeys, and Judith Thurman considers the mysteries of hyperpolyglots, people with the ability to speak dozens of languages. — The New Yorker, "Sunday Reading: In Another Tongue," 18 Aug. 2019 Fertility control, which contributed to a falling birth rate in France in the early 19th century, before anywhere else, spread first to places that had close cultural and linguistic links to France. — The Economist, "A society’s values and beliefs matter for its economy," 25 July 2019 Yet the opposite linguistic dynamic has been in play for some time. — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, "How Robert O’Rourke Became ‘Beto’," 12 Aug. 2019 Lacking any familiarity with the structure of their language, people find linguistic rubrics arbitrary and unreasonable. — Lionel Shriver, Harper's magazine, "Semantic Drift," 22 July 2019 But problems in speech perception can arise when those kinds of cues are missing, especially when pitch and rhythm are used for non-linguistic purposes, like in music. — Melissa Michaud Baese-berk, Quartz, "We may have misheard Neil Armstrong’s famous first words on the Moon," 17 July 2019 Most students selected to attend the High School Journalism Institute have linguistic, cultural or socioeconomic backgrounds that differ from those that predominate Oregon school systems. — oregonlive.com, "‘One of the best weeks’: High School Journalism Institute underway at Oregon State," 13 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'linguistic.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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