syntactic
adjective
syn·tac·tic
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or syntactical \ sin-ˈtak-ti-kəl
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Definition of syntactic
: of, relating to, or according to the rules of syntax or syntactics
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Other Words from syntactic
syntactically
\ sin-ˈtak-ti-k(ə-)lē
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adverb
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adverb
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Language, too, has a recursive structure in which a syntactic category such as a sentence can contain other sentence clauses that in turn can contain clauses themselves, and so on. — Quanta Magazine, "The Bulldogs That Bulldogs Fight," 17 Apr. 2019 Shi and others recruited and hired current and former employees of the engineering firm in Houston, including Liu, to aid CBMF's capability to make syntactic foam. — Jose R. Gonzalez, Houston Chronicle, "Houston man indicted for 'vast criminal conspiracy' to aid China-owned companies," 27 Apr. 2018 Flipping their syntactic form does nothing to their semantic role. — The Economist, "The weasel voice in journalism," 24 May 2018 But from inside the books, the syntactic icing is so clearly a protective measure, a droll band-aid. — Rachel Syme, The New Republic, "Is Patrick Melrose Too Glamorous?," 17 May 2018 The indictment alleges that from at least 2013 through May 2017, Shi operated on behalf of CBMF, which intended to create a facility in China to sell syntactic foam. — Jose R. Gonzalez, Houston Chronicle, "Houston man indicted for 'vast criminal conspiracy' to aid China-owned companies," 27 Apr. 2018 Greenberg is a linguistics expert who teaches courses in Russian and whose interests include Russian and Slavic linguistics as well as syntactic theory. — Valerie Strauss, Washington Post, "Why we still need to study the humanities in a STEM world," 18 Oct. 2017 Her lines crackle with syntactic wit: Nouns and verbs can riot and tumble, or, when most keenly needed, be startlingly absent. — Margalit Fox, New York Times, "C. D. Wright, Poet of Ozarks and Beyond, Dies at 67," 16 Jan. 2016 The book is characterized by nostalgia mixed with surgical literary and syntactic analysis. — Heather Scott Partington, New York Times, "Four New Collections of Omnivorous Literary Criticism," 23 June 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'syntactic.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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More Definitions for syntactic
syntactic
adjective
English Language Learners Definition of syntactic
linguistics
: of or relating to syntax
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syntactic
adjective
syn·tac·tic
| \ sin-ˈtak-tik
\
\
variants:
or syntactical \ -ti-kəl
\
\
Medical Definition of syntactic
: of or relating to syntactics
Other Words from syntactic
syntactically
\ -ti-k(ə-)lē
\
adverb
\
adverb
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