grammatical

From Middle French grammatical, from Latin grammaticālis.

• enPR: grəmăt'ĭkəl, IPA^(key): /ɡɹəˈmæt.ɪ.kəl/

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• (Indic) IPA^(key): /ɡrəˈmæ.ʈɪ.kəl/, /ˈɡræ.mə.ʈɪ.kəl/

grammatical (comparative more grammatical, superlative most grammatical)

2. Not breaching any constraints of the grammar, or morpho-syntax, of the relevant language.

   Synonym: grammatic

   Antonyms: ungrammatical, agrammatical, ungrammatic

   Coordinate term: idiomatic

   Your writing in English is not grammatical enough for publication, so we will hire an editor to fix it where necessary while preserving the intended meaning.

   These unidiomatic utterances are easily comprehensible but are not grammatical.

   • 2021 May 29, Richard Nordquist, “What Is Headlinese?”, in ThoughtCo‎^[1], archived from the original on 10 December 2021:

     [Otto] Jespersen, a language professor known for his expertise in syntax and language development, stated that headlinese is not really grammatical writing.

4. Of or pertaining to grammar.

   Synonym: grammatic

   The writing was measured for both grammatical complexity and accuracy factors.

Inherited from Middle French grammatical, from Late Latin grammaticālis.

• IPA^(key): /ɡʁa.ma.ti.kal/, /ɡʁam.ma.ti.kal/

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grammatical (feminine grammaticale, masculine plural grammaticaux, feminine plural grammaticales)

1. grammatical

   Antonym: agrammatical

• cas grammatical
• grammaticalement
• mot grammatical
• sujet grammatical

• grammaire
• grammairien

• “grammatical”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

grammatical m

1. alternative form of granmatical

grammatical m or f (plural grammaticais)

1. pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of gramatical