Exact Match:
- descriptive
- describing the structure of a language; "descriptive linguistics simply describes language"
- serving to describe or inform or characterized by description; "the descriptive variable"; "a descriptive passage"
Synonyms:
- constructional,
- constructive,
- definitional,
- delineative,
- depictive,
- diagnostic,
- exegetic,
- expositive,
- expressive,
- faithful,
- glottochronological,
- grammatic,
- graphemic,
- graphic,
- hermeneutic,
- interpretational,
- interpretive,
- lexicographic,
- lexicological,
- lexicostatistical,
- lifelike,
- lingual,
- linguistic,
- metalinguistic,
- morphological,
- morphophonemic,
- naturalistic,
- philological,
- phonemic,
- phonetic,
- phonological,
- psycholinguistic,
- realistic,
- representative,
- semantic,
- semeiological,
- structural,
- symptomatological,
- syntactic,
- tropological,
- true to life,
- vivid,
- well-drawn
Related Words:
- bowwow theory,
- comparative linguistics,
- derivation,
- descriptive grammar,
- descriptive linguistics,
- dialectology,
- dingdong theory,
- etymology,
- generative grammar,
- glossology,
- glottochronology,
- glottology,
- grammar,
- grammatical analysis,
- grammatical theory,
- grammaticality,
- graphemics,
- historical linguistics,
- language study,
- lexicology,
- lexicostatistics,
- linguistic geography,
- linguistic science,
- linguistics,
- mathematical linguistics,
- morphology,
- morphophonemics,
- paleography,
- parsing,
- philology,
- phonetics,
- phonology,
- phrase-structure grammar,
- psycholinguistics,
- rules of language,
- school grammar,
- semantics,
- sociolinguistics,
- stratificational grammar,
- structural grammar,
- structuralism,
- syntactics,
- tagmemic analysis,
- traditional grammar,
- transformational grammar,
- transformational linguistics
- phonology
collapse - the study of the sound system of a given language and the analysis and classification of its phonemes related words >
- ablaut,
- acoustic phonetics,
- articulatory phonetics,
- betacism,
- bowwow theory,
- comparative linguistics,
- derivation,
- descriptive grammar,
- descriptive linguistics,
- dialectology,
- dingdong theory,
- etymology,
- generative grammar,
- glossematics,
- glossology,
- glottochronology,
- glottology,
- gradation,
- grammar,
- grammatical analysis,
- grammatical theory,
- grammaticality,
- graphemics,
- historical linguistics,
- language study,
- lexicology,
- lexicostatistics,
- linguistic geography,
- linguistic science,
- linguistics,
- mathematical linguistics,
- morphology,
- morphophonemics,
- mutation,
- orthoepy,
- paleography,
- parsing,
- philology,
- phonetics,
- phrase-structure grammar,
- psycholinguistics,
- rhotacism,
- rules of language,
- school grammar,
- semantics,
- sociolinguistics,
- sound shift,
- stratificational grammar,
- structural grammar,
- structuralism,
- syntactics,
- tagmemic analysis,
- traditional grammar,
- transformational grammar,
- transformational linguistics,
- umlaut
- philological
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- of or relating to or dealing with philology related words >
- explanatory
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- serving or intended to explain or make clear; "explanatory notes"; "an explanatory paragraph" related words >
- allegorizing,
- annotative,
- clarifying,
- critical,
- demonstrative,
- demythologizing,
- descriptive,
- discursive,
- editorial,
- elucidative,
- enlightening,
- euhemeristic,
- exegetic,
- exegetical,
- exemplificative,
- explaining,
- explicative,
- explicatory,
- expositional,
- expositive,
- expository,
- glossarial,
- illuminating,
- illuminative,
- illustrative,
- interpretative,
- interpretive,
- rationalistic,
- rationalizing,
- revelatory,
- scholiastic
- morphology
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- the branch of biology that deals with the structure of animals and plants
- the branch of geology that studies the characteristics and configuration and evolution of rocks and land forms
- the admissible arrangement of sounds in words
- studies of the rules for forming admissible words related words >
- IC analysis,
- accidence,
- affix,
- affixation,
- allomorph,
- anatomist,
- anatomy,
- angiography,
- angiology,
- anthropotomy,
- bound morpheme,
- bowwow theory,
- comparative linguistics,
- conjugation,
- cutting,
- declension,
- derivation,
- descriptive grammar,
- descriptive linguistics,
- dialectology,
- difference of form,
- dingdong theory,
- enclitic,
- etymology,
- form,
- formative,
- free form,
- generative grammar,
- geomorphology,
- glossematics,
- glossology,
- glottochronology,
- glottology,
- grammar,
- grammatical analysis,
- grammatical theory,
- grammaticality,
- graphemics,
- histologist,
- histology,
- historical linguistics,
- immediate constituent analysis,
- infix,
- infixation,
- inflection,
- language study,
- lexicology,
- lexicostatistics,
- linguistic geography,
- linguistic science,
- linguistics,
- mathematical linguistics,
- morph,
- morpheme,
- morphemic analysis,
- morphemics,
- morphologist,
- morphophonemics,
- myography,
- myology,
- organography,
- organology,
- osteography,
- osteology,
- paleography,
- paradigm,
- parsing,
- philology,
- phonetics,
- phonology,
- phrase-structure grammar,
- prefix,
- prefixation,
- proclitic,
- psycholinguistics,
- radical,
- root,
- rules of language,
- school grammar,
- semantics,
- sociolinguistics,
- splanchnography,
- splanchnology,
- stem,
- stratificational grammar,
- structural grammar,
- structuralism,
- suffix,
- suffixation,
- syntactics,
- tagmemic analysis,
- tectology,
- theme,
- traditional grammar,
- transformational grammar,
- transformational linguistics,
- word-formation,
- zootomy
- syntactic
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- of or relating to or conforming to the rules of syntax; "the syntactic rules of a language" related words >
- adjectival,
- adverbial,
- attributive,
- conjunctive,
- copulative,
- correct,
- descriptive,
- formal,
- functional,
- glossematic,
- glottochronological,
- grammatic,
- graphemic,
- intransitive,
- lexicographic,
- lexicological,
- lexicostatistical,
- lingual,
- linguistic,
- linking,
- metalinguistic,
- morphological,
- morphophonemic,
- nominal,
- participial,
- philological,
- phonemic,
- phonetic,
- phonological,
- postpositional,
- prepositional,
- pronominal,
- psycholinguistic,
- semantic,
- structural,
- substantive,
- tagmemic,
- transitive,
- verbal
- adjectival,
- adverbial,
- attributive,
- conjunctive,
- copulative,
- correct,
- descriptive,
- formal,
- functional,
- glossematic,
- glottochronological,
- graphemic,
- intransitive,
- lexicographic,
- lexicological,
- lexicostatistical,
- lingual,
- linguistic,
- linking,
- metalinguistic,
- morphological,
- morphophonemic,
- nominal,
- participial,
- philological,
- phonemic,
- phonetic,
- phonological,
- postpositional,
- prepositional,
- pronominal,
- psycholinguistic,
- semantic,
- structural,
- substantive,
- syntactic,
- tagmemic,
- transitive,
- verbal
- grammatical
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- conforming to the rules of grammar or usage accepted by native speakers; "spoke in grammatical sentences"
- of or pertaining to grammar; "the grammatic structure of a sentence"; "grammatical rules"; "grammatical gender" related words >
- adjectival,
- adverbial,
- attributive,
- conjunctive,
- copulative,
- correct,
- descriptive,
- formal,
- functional,
- glossematic,
- glottochronological,
- grammatic,
- graphemic,
- intransitive,
- lexicographic,
- lexicological,
- lexicostatistical,
- lingual,
- linguistic,
- linking,
- metalinguistic,
- morphological,
- morphophonemic,
- nominal,
- participial,
- philological,
- phonemic,
- phonetic,
- phonological,
- postpositional,
- prepositional,
- pronominal,
- psycholinguistic,
- semantic,
- structural,
- substantive,
- syntactic,
- tagmemic,
- transitive,
- verbal
- affixal,
- anatomic,
- architectonic,
- architectural,
- constructional,
- derivational,
- descriptive,
- edificial,
- formal,
- glottochronological,
- grammatic,
- graphemic,
- infixal,
- inflectional,
- inflective,
- lexicographic,
- lexicological,
- lexicostatistical,
- lingual,
- linguistic,
- metalinguistic,
- morphemic,
- morphologic,
- morphophonemic,
- organic,
- organismal,
- paradigmatic,
- philological,
- phonemic,
- phonetic,
- phonological,
- prefixal,
- psycholinguistic,
- semantic,
- structural,
- substructural,
- superstructural,
- syntactic,
- tectonic,
- textural
- abecedarian,
- allographic,
- alphabetic,
- capital,
- descriptive,
- glottochronological,
- grammatic,
- ideographic,
- lettered,
- lexicographic,
- lexicological,
- lexicostatistical,
- lexigraphic,
- lingual,
- linguistic,
- literal,
- logogrammatic,
- logographic,
- lower-case,
- majuscule,
- metalinguistic,
- minuscular,
- minuscule,
- morphological,
- morphophonemic,
- philological,
- phonemic,
- phonetic,
- phonological,
- pictographic,
- psycholinguistic,
- semantic,
- structural,
- syntactic,
- transliterated,
- uncial,
- upper-case
- blocking,
- descriptive grammar,
- detailing,
- enumeration,
- generative grammar,
- glossematics,
- grammar,
- grammatical analysis,
- grammatical theory,
- grammaticality,
- itemization,
- morphology,
- phonology,
- phrase-structure grammar,
- resolution,
- rules of language,
- scansion,
- schematization,
- school grammar,
- stratificational grammar,
- structural grammar,
- tagmemic analysis,
- traditional grammar,
- transformational grammar
- constructive
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- constructing or tending to construct or improve or promote development; "constructive criticism"; "a constructive attitude"; "a constructive philosophy"; "constructive permission"
- emphasizing what is laudable or hopeful or to the good; "constructive criticism" related words >
- advantageous,
- aidful,
- beneficial,
- causative,
- conducive,
- construable,
- constructional,
- contributory,
- creative,
- deduced,
- definitional,
- demiurgic,
- derived,
- descriptive,
- diagnostic,
- exegetic,
- formative,
- furthersome,
- generative,
- good for,
- helpful,
- hermeneutic,
- implicit,
- inferential,
- inferred,
- interpretable,
- interpretational,
- interpretive,
- inventive,
- originative,
- positive,
- practicable,
- practical,
- productive,
- profitable,
- ratiocinative,
- remedial,
- renderable,
- salutary,
- semeiological,
- serviceable,
- symptomatological,
- therapeutic,
- tropological,
- useful,
- virtual
- bowwow theory,
- comparative linguistics,
- derivation,
- descriptive linguistics,
- dialectology,
- dingdong theory,
- etymology,
- glossematics,
- glossology,
- glottochronology,
- glottology,
- grammar,
- graphemics,
- historical linguistics,
- language study,
- lexicology,
- lexicostatistics,
- linguistic geography,
- linguistic science,
- linguistics,
- mathematical linguistics,
- morphology,
- morphophonemics,
- paleography,
- phonetics,
- phonology,
- psycholinguistics,
- semantics,
- sociolinguistics,
- structuralism,
- syntactics,
- transformational linguistics
- linguistics
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- the humanistic study of language and literature
- the scientific study of language related words >
- bowwow theory,
- comparative linguistics,
- derivation,
- descriptive linguistics,
- dialectology,
- dingdong theory,
- etymology,
- glossematics,
- glossology,
- glottochronology,
- glottology,
- grammar,
- graphemics,
- historical linguistics,
- language study,
- lexicology,
- lexicostatistics,
- linguistic geography,
- linguistic science,
- mathematical linguistics,
- morphology,
- morphophonemics,
- paleography,
- philology,
- phonetics,
- phonology,
- psycholinguistics,
- semantics,
- sociolinguistics,
- structuralism,
- syntactics,
- transformational linguistics
- allegorizing,
- annotative,
- clarifying,
- commentative,
- commentatorial,
- critical,
- delineative,
- demonstrative,
- demythologizing,
- depictive,
- descriptive,
- discoursive,
- disquisitional,
- dissertational,
- editorial,
- elucidative,
- enlightening,
- essayistic,
- euhemeristic,
- exegetic,
- exemplificative,
- explaining,
- explanatory,
- explicative,
- explicatory,
- expositional,
- expositorial,
- expository,
- expressive,
- faithful,
- glossarial,
- graphic,
- illuminating,
- illuminative,
- illustrative,
- interpretive,
- lifelike,
- monographic,
- naturalistic,
- rationalistic,
- rationalizing,
- realistic,
- representative,
- scholiastic,
- true to life,
- vivid,
- well-drawn
- structural
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- concerned with systematic structure in a particular field of study
- affecting or involved in structure or construction; "the structural details of a house such as beams and joists and rafters; not ornamental elements"; "structural damage"
- relating to or having or characterized by structure; "structural engineer"; "structural errors"; "structural simplicity"
- relating to or caused by structure, especially political or economic structure; "structural unemployment in a technological society" related words >
- adjectival,
- adverbial,
- anatomic,
- architectonic,
- architectural,
- attributive,
- building,
- conjunctive,
- constructional,
- copulative,
- correct,
- descriptive,
- edificial,
- formal,
- functional,
- glossematic,
- glottochronological,
- grammatic,
- graphemic,
- housing,
- intransitive,
- lexicographic,
- lexicological,
- lexicostatistical,
- lingual,
- linguistic,
- linking,
- metalinguistic,
- morphological,
- morphophonemic,
- nominal,
- organic,
- organismal,
- participial,
- philological,
- phonemic,
- phonetic,
- phonological,
- postpositional,
- prepositional,
- pronominal,
- psycholinguistic,
- semantic,
- substantive,
- substructural,
- superstructural,
- syntactic,
- tagmemic,
- tectonic,
- textural,
- transitive,
- verbal
- semantics
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- the study of language meaning related words >
- bowwow theory,
- comparative linguistics,
- derivation,
- descriptive linguistics,
- dialectology,
- dingdong theory,
- etymology,
- glossematics,
- glossography,
- glossology,
- glottochronology,
- glottology,
- grammar,
- graphemics,
- historical linguistics,
- language study,
- lexicography,
- lexicology,
- lexicostatistics,
- lexigraphy,
- linguistic geography,
- linguistic science,
- linguistics,
- mathematical linguistics,
- morphology,
- morphophonemics,
- onomasiology,
- onomastics,
- onomatology,
- paleography,
- philology,
- phonetics,
- phonology,
- psycholinguistics,
- semasiology,
- semiotic,
- semiotics,
- significs,
- sociolinguistics,
- structuralism,
- syntactics,
- transformational linguistics
- lexicology
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- the branch of linguistics that studies the lexical component of language related words >
- bowwow theory,
- comparative linguistics,
- derivation,
- descriptive linguistics,
- dialectology,
- dingdong theory,
- etymology,
- glossematics,
- glossography,
- glossology,
- glottochronology,
- glottology,
- grammar,
- graphemics,
- historical linguistics,
- language study,
- lexicography,
- lexicostatistics,
- lexigraphy,
- linguistic geography,
- linguistic science,
- linguistics,
- mathematical linguistics,
- morphology,
- morphophonemics,
- onomasiology,
- onomastics,
- onomatology,
- paleography,
- philology,
- phonetics,
- phonology,
- psycholinguistics,
- semantics,
- semasiology,
- semiotic,
- semiotics,
- significs,
- sociolinguistics,
- structuralism,
- syntactics,
- transformational linguistics
- linguistic
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- consisting of or related to language; "linguistic behavior"; "a linguistic atlas"; "lingual diversity"
- of or relating to the scientific study of language; "linguistic theory" related words >
- 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
- etymology
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- the study of the sources and development of words
- a history of a word related words >
- bowwow theory,
- comparative linguistics,
- derivation,
- descriptive linguistics,
- dialectology,
- dingdong theory,
- eponymy,
- folk etymology,
- glossematics,
- glossology,
- glottochronology,
- glottology,
- grammar,
- graphemics,
- historical linguistics,
- language study,
- lexicology,
- lexicostatistics,
- linguistic geography,
- linguistic science,
- linguistics,
- mathematical linguistics,
- morphology,
- morphophonemics,
- origin,
- paleography,
- philology,
- phonetics,
- phonology,
- psycholinguistics,
- semantic history,
- semantics,
- sociolinguistics,
- structuralism,
- syntactics,
- transformational linguistics,
- word history
- diagnostic
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- characteristic or indicative of e.g. a disease; "a diagnostic sign of yellow fever"; "diagnostic information"; "a rash symptomatic of scarlet fever"; "symptomatic of insanity"; "a rise in crime symptomatic of social breakdown"
- concerned with diagnosis; used for furthering diagnosis; "a diagnostic clinic"; "a diagnostic reading test"; "diagnostic information" related words >
- characteristic,
- characterizing,
- connotative,
- constructional,
- constructive,
- contrastive,
- definitional,
- demonstrative,
- denominative,
- denotative,
- descriptive,
- designative,
- diacritical,
- differencing,
- differential,
- differentiative,
- discriminating,
- discriminative,
- distinctive,
- distinguishing,
- emblematic,
- evidential,
- exegetic,
- exhibitive,
- expressive,
- figural,
- figurative,
- hermeneutic,
- identifying,
- ideographic,
- idiosyncratic,
- implicative,
- indicating,
- indicative,
- indicatory,
- individual,
- individualizing,
- individuating,
- interpretational,
- interpretive,
- meaningful,
- metaphorical,
- naming,
- pathognomonic,
- peculiar,
- personalizing,
- proper,
- representative,
- semantic,
- semeiological,
- semiotic,
- separative,
- signalizing,
- significant,
- significative,
- signifying,
- suggestive,
- symbolic,
- symbolistic,
- symbological,
- symptomatic,
- symptomatologic,
- symptomatological,
- tropological,
- typical
- semantic
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- of or relating to meaning or the study of meaning; "semantic analysis" related words >
- connotative,
- demonstrative,
- denominative,
- denotative,
- descriptive,
- designative,
- diagnostic,
- emblematic,
- evidential,
- exhibitive,
- expressive,
- figural,
- figurative,
- glossematic,
- glottochronological,
- grammatic,
- graphemic,
- iconic,
- identifying,
- ideographic,
- idiosyncratic,
- implicative,
- indicating,
- indicative,
- indicatory,
- individual,
- lexemic,
- lexical,
- lexicographic,
- lexicological,
- lexicostatistical,
- lingual,
- linguistic,
- meaningful,
- metalinguistic,
- metaphorical,
- morphemic,
- morphological,
- morphophonemic,
- naming,
- pathognomonic,
- peculiar,
- philological,
- phonemic,
- phonetic,
- phonological,
- phrasal,
- psycholinguistic,
- representative,
- semantological,
- semasiological,
- sememic,
- semiotic,
- signalizing,
- significant,
- significative,
- signifying,
- structural,
- suggestive,
- symbolic,
- symbolistic,
- symbological,
- symptomatic,
- symptomatologic,
- syntactic,
- typical,
- verbal
- phonetics
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- the branch of acoustics concerned with speech processes including its production and perception and acoustic analysis related words >
- ablaut,
- acoustic phonetics,
- articulatory phonetics,
- audiometer,
- auriscope,
- auriscopy,
- betacism,
- bowwow theory,
- cacography,
- comparative linguistics,
- derivation,
- descriptive linguistics,
- dialectology,
- dingdong theory,
- etymology,
- glossematics,
- glossology,
- glottochronology,
- glottology,
- gradation,
- grammar,
- graphemics,
- historical linguistics,
- language study,
- lexicology,
- lexicostatistics,
- linguistic geography,
- linguistic science,
- linguistics,
- mathematical linguistics,
- morphology,
- morphophonemics,
- mutation,
- orthoepy,
- orthography,
- otography,
- otolaryngology,
- otology,
- otoneurology,
- otopathy,
- otoplasty,
- otoscope,
- otoscopy,
- paleography,
- philology,
- phonetic spelling,
- phonography,
- phonology,
- psycholinguistics,
- rhotacism,
- semantics,
- sociolinguistics,
- sound shift,
- spelldown,
- spelling,
- spelling bee,
- spelling match,
- spelling reform,
- structuralism,
- syntactics,
- transformational linguistics,
- umlaut
- lifelike
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- free from artificiality; "a lifelike pose"; "a natural reaction" related words >
- authentic,
- bona fide,
- breathing,
- candid,
- card-carrying,
- delineative,
- depictive,
- descriptive,
- dinkum,
- expositive,
- expressive,
- faithful,
- following the letter,
- genuine,
- good,
- graphic,
- honest,
- honest-to-God,
- inartificial,
- lawful,
- legitimate,
- literal,
- living,
- natural,
- naturalistic,
- original,
- pure,
- real,
- realistic,
- representative,
- rightful,
- simon-pure,
- simple,
- sincere,
- speaking,
- sterling,
- sure-enough,
- to the life,
- true to life,
- true to nature,
- true to reality,
- unadulterated,
- unaffected,
- unassumed,
- unassuming,
- uncolored,
- unconcocted,
- uncopied,
- uncounterfeited,
- undisguised,
- undisguising,
- undistorted,
- unexaggerated,
- unfabricated,
- unfanciful,
- unfeigned,
- unfeigning,
- unfictitious,
- unflattering,
- unimagined,
- unimitated,
- uninvented,
- unpretended,
- unpretending,
- unqualified,
- unromantic,
- unsimulated,
- unspecious,
- unsynthetic,
- unvarnished,
- verbal,
- verbatim,
- veridical,
- verisimilar,
- vivid,
- well-drawn,
- word-for-word
- authentic,
- bona fide,
- breathing,
- candid,
- card-carrying,
- delineative,
- depictive,
- descriptive,
- dinkum,
- expositive,
- expressive,
- faithful,
- following the letter,
- genuine,
- good,
- graphic,
- honest,
- honest-to-God,
- inartificial,
- lawful,
- legitimate,
- lifelike,
- literal,
- living,
- natural,
- naturalistic,
- original,
- pure,
- real,
- realistic,
- representative,
- rightful,
- simon-pure,
- simple,
- sincere,
- speaking,
- sterling,
- sure-enough,
- to the life,
- true to nature,
- true to reality,
- unadulterated,
- unaffected,
- unassumed,
- unassuming,
- uncolored,
- unconcocted,
- uncopied,
- uncounterfeited,
- undisguised,
- undisguising,
- undistorted,
- unexaggerated,
- unfabricated,
- unfanciful,
- unfeigned,
- unfeigning,
- unfictitious,
- unflattering,
- unimagined,
- unimitated,
- uninvented,
- unpretended,
- unpretending,
- unqualified,
- unromantic,
- unsimulated,
- unspecious,
- unsynthetic,
- unvarnished,
- verbal,
- verbatim,
- veridical,
- verisimilar,
- vivid,
- well-drawn,
- word-for-word
- IC analysis,
- appositive,
- attribute,
- attributive,
- bowwow theory,
- comparative linguistics,
- complement,
- construction modifier,
- cutting,
- deep structure,
- derivation,
- descriptive linguistics,
- dialectology,
- dingdong theory,
- direct object,
- etymology,
- filler,
- form-function unit,
- function,
- glossematics,
- glossology,
- glottochronology,
- glottology,
- grammar,
- graphemics,
- historical linguistics,
- immediate constituent analysis,
- indirect object,
- language study,
- levels,
- lexicology,
- lexicostatistics,
- linguistic geography,
- linguistic science,
- linguistics,
- mathematical linguistics,
- modifier,
- morphology,
- morphophonemics,
- object,
- paleography,
- philology,
- phonetics,
- phonology,
- phrase structure,
- predicate,
- psycholinguistics,
- qualifier,
- ranks,
- semantics,
- shallow structure,
- slot,
- slot and filler,
- sociolinguistics,
- strata,
- structuralism,
- structure,
- subject,
- surface structure,
- syntactic analysis,
- syntactic structure,
- syntax,
- tagmeme,
- transformational linguistics,
- underlying structure,
- word arrangement,
- word order
- paleography
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- the study of ancient forms of writing (and the deciphering of them) related words >
- IPA,
- ITA,
- Initial Teaching Alphabet,
- International Phonetic Alphabet,
- alphabet,
- alphabetics,
- autography,
- bowwow theory,
- calligraphy,
- chirography,
- comparative linguistics,
- criticism,
- cryptanalysis,
- cryptography,
- cryptology,
- derivation,
- descriptive linguistics,
- diagnostics,
- dialectology,
- dingdong theory,
- epigraphy,
- etymology,
- exegetics,
- fist,
- futhark,
- glossematics,
- glossology,
- glottochronology,
- glottology,
- grammar,
- graphanalysis,
- graphemics,
- graphology,
- graphometry,
- hand,
- handwriting,
- hermeneutics,
- historical linguistics,
- language study,
- letters,
- lexicography,
- lexicology,
- lexicostatistics,
- linguistic geography,
- linguistic science,
- linguistics,
- literary criticism,
- manuscript,
- mathematical linguistics,
- metoposcopy,
- morphology,
- morphophonemics,
- oneirology,
- pathognomy,
- pencraft,
- penmanship,
- penscript,
- philology,
- phonetics,
- phonology,
- physiognomics,
- physiognomy,
- psycholinguistics,
- runic alphabet,
- script,
- scription,
- scrive,
- semantics,
- semeiology,
- semeiotics,
- sociolinguistics,
- structuralism,
- stylography,
- syllabary,
- symptomatology,
- syntactics,
- textual criticism,
- transformational linguistics,
- tropology,
- writing system
- trigonometry
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- the mathematics of triangles and trigonometric functions related words >
- Boolean algebra,
- Euclidean geometry,
- Fourier analysis,
- Lagrangian function,
- algebra,
- algebraic geometry,
- analysis,
- analytic geometry,
- arithmetic,
- associative algebra,
- binary arithmetic,
- calculus,
- circle geometry,
- descriptive geometry,
- differential calculus,
- division algebra,
- equivalent algebras,
- game theory,
- geodesy,
- geometry,
- goniometry,
- graphic algebra,
- group theory,
- higher algebra,
- higher arithmetic,
- hyperbolic geometry,
- infinitesimal calculus,
- integral calculus,
- intuitional geometry,
- invariant subalgebra,
- inverse geometry,
- line geometry,
- linear algebra,
- mathematical physics,
- matrix algebra,
- metageometry,
- modular arithmetic,
- n-tuple linear algebra,
- natural geometry,
- nilpotent algebra,
- number theory,
- plane trigonometry,
- political arithmetic,
- projective geometry,
- proper subalgebra,
- quaternian algebra,
- reducible algebra,
- set theory,
- simple algebra,
- solid geometry,
- speculative geometry,
- spherical trigonometry,
- statistics,
- subalgebra,
- systems analysis,
- topology,
- trig,
- universal algebra,
- universal geometry,
- vector algebra,
- zero algebra
- grammar
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- the branch of linguistics that deals with syntax and morphology (and sometimes also deals with semantics or morphology) related words >
- abecedarium,
- abecedary,
- alphabet,
- alphabet book,
- basics,
- battledore,
- bowwow theory,
- casebook,
- choice of words,
- comparative linguistics,
- composition,
- derivation,
- descriptive linguistics,
- dialect,
- dialectology,
- diction,
- dingdong theory,
- elements,
- etymology,
- exercise book,
- expression,
- first principles,
- first steps,
- formulation,
- fundamentals,
- glossematics,
- glossology,
- glottochronology,
- glottology,
- gradus,
- graphemics,
- historical linguistics,
- hornbook,
- idiom,
- induction,
- language,
- language study,
- lexicology,
- lexicostatistics,
- linguistic geography,
- linguistic science,
- linguistics,
- locution,
- manual,
- manual of instruction,
- mathematical linguistics,
- morphology,
- morphophonemics,
- outlines,
- paleography,
- parlance,
- philology,
- phonetics,
- phonology,
- phrase,
- phraseology,
- phrasing,
- primer,
- principia,
- principles,
- psycholinguistics,
- reader,
- rhetoric,
- rudiments,
- schoolbook,
- semantics,
- sociolinguistics,
- speech,
- speller,
- spelling book,
- structuralism,
- syntactics,
- t,
- talk,
- text,
- transformational linguistics,
- usage,
- use of words,
- usus loquendi,
- verbiage,
- wordage,
- wording,
- workbook
- arithmetic
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- the branch of pure mathematics dealing with the theory of numerical calculations related words >
- Boolean algebra,
- Euclidean geometry,
- Fourier analysis,
- Lagrangian function,
- algebra,
- algebraic geometry,
- analysis,
- analytic geometry,
- associative algebra,
- binary arithmetic,
- calculation,
- calculus,
- ciphering,
- circle geometry,
- descriptive geometry,
- differential calculus,
- division algebra,
- equivalent algebras,
- estimation,
- figuring,
- game theory,
- geodesy,
- geometry,
- graphic algebra,
- group theory,
- higher algebra,
- higher arithmetic,
- hyperbolic geometry,
- infinitesimal calculus,
- integral calculus,
- intuitional geometry,
- invariant subalgebra,
- inverse geometry,
- line geometry,
- linear algebra,
- mathematical physics,
- matrix algebra,
- metageometry,
- modular arithmetic,
- n-tuple linear algebra,
- natural geometry,
- nilpotent algebra,
- number theory,
- plane trigonometry,
- political arithmetic,
- projective geometry,
- proper subalgebra,
- quaternian algebra,
- reckoning,
- reducible algebra,
- set theory,
- simple algebra,
- solid geometry,
- speculative geometry,
- spherical trigonometry,
- statistics,
- subalgebra,
- systems analysis,
- topology,
- trig,
- trigonometry,
- universal algebra,
- universal geometry,
- vector algebra,
- zero algebra
- phonemic
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- of or relating to phonemes of a particular language; "phonemic analysis"
- by phonemics; "phonemically transcribed" related words >
- accented,
- alveolar,
- apical,
- apico-alveolar,
- apico-dental,
- articulated,
- assimilated,
- back,
- barytone,
- bilabial,
- broad,
- cacuminal,
- central,
- cerebral,
- checked,
- close,
- consonant,
- consonantal,
- continuant,
- dental,
- descriptive,
- dissimilated,
- dorsal,
- flat,
- front,
- glide,
- glossal,
- glottal,
- glottochronological,
- grammatic,
- graphemic,
- guttural,
- hard,
- heavy,
- high,
- intonated,
- labial,
- labiodental,
- labiovelar,
- lateral,
- lax,
- lexicographic,
- lexicological,
- lexicostatistical,
- light,
- lingual,
- linguistic,
- liquid,
- low,
- metalinguistic,
- mid,
- monophthongal,
- morphological,
- morphophonemic,
- muted,
- narrow,
- nasal,
- nasalized,
- occlusive,
- open,
- oxytone,
- palatal,
- palatalized,
- pharyngeal,
- pharyngealized,
- philological,
- phonetic,
- phonic,
- phonological,
- pitch,
- pitched,
- posttonic,
- psycholinguistic,
- retroflex,
- rounded,
- semantic,
- semivowel,
- soft,
- sonant,
- stopped,
- stressed,
- strong,
- structural,
- surd,
- syllabic,
- syntactic,
- tense,
- thick,
- throaty,
- tonal,
- tonic,
- twangy,
- unaccented,
- unrounded,
- unstressed,
- velar,
- vocalic,
- vocoid,
- voiced,
- voiceless,
- vowel,
- vowellike,
- weak,
- wide
- mathematics
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- a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement related words >
- Boolean algebra,
- Euclidean geometry,
- Fourier analysis,
- Lagrangian function,
- algebra,
- algebraic geometry,
- algorism,
- algorithm,
- analysis,
- analytic geometry,
- applied mathematics,
- arithmetic,
- associative algebra,
- binary arithmetic,
- calculus,
- circle geometry,
- descriptive geometry,
- differential calculus,
- division algebra,
- equivalent algebras,
- figures,
- game theory,
- geodesy,
- geometry,
- graphic algebra,
- group theory,
- higher algebra,
- higher arithmetic,
- higher mathematics,
- hyperbolic geometry,
- infinitesimal calculus,
- integral calculus,
- intuitional geometry,
- invariant subalgebra,
- inverse geometry,
- line geometry,
- linear algebra,
- math,
- mathematic,
- mathematical physics,
- matrix algebra,
- metageometry,
- modular arithmetic,
- n-tuple linear algebra,
- natural geometry,
- nilpotent algebra,
- number theory,
- numbers,
- plane trigonometry,
- political arithmetic,
- projective geometry,
- proper subalgebra,
- pure mathematics,
- quaternian algebra,
- reducible algebra,
- set theory,
- simple algebra,
- solid geometry,
- speculative geometry,
- spherical trigonometry,
- statistics,
- subalgebra,
- systems analysis,
- topology,
- trig,
- trigonometry,
- universal algebra,
- universal geometry,
- vector algebra,
- zero algebra
- graphic
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- an image that is generated by a computer
- describing nudity or sexual activity in graphic detail; "graphic sexual scenes"
- evoking lifelike images within the mind; "pictorial poetry and prose"; "graphic accounts of battle"; "a lifelike portrait"; "a vivid description"
- written or drawn or engraved; "graphic symbols"
- relating to or presented by a graph; "a graphic presentation of the data"
- of or relating to the graphic arts; "the etchings, drypoints, lithographs, and engravings which together form his graphic work"- British Book News related words >
- accurate,
- apish,
- autograph,
- autographic,
- calligraphic,
- chirographic,
- clear,
- clear-cut,
- cogent,
- compelling,
- convincing,
- cursive,
- definite,
- delineative,
- delineatory,
- depictive,
- descriptive,
- detailed,
- diagrammatic,
- distinct,
- drawn,
- echoic,
- embodying,
- engrossed,
- explicit,
- expositive,
- expressive,
- faithful,
- figurative,
- flowing,
- freehand,
- gory,
- graphoanalytic,
- graphologic,
- graphometric,
- holograph,
- holographic,
- ideographic,
- illustrational,
- illustrative,
- imaginative,
- imitative,
- in longhand,
- in shorthand,
- in writing,
- incarnating,
- incisive,
- inscribed,
- italic,
- italicized,
- lifelike,
- limning,
- longhand,
- lucid,
- manifest,
- manuscript,
- meaningful,
- mimetic,
- mimish,
- monochrome,
- naturalistic,
- on paper,
- onomatopoeic,
- painty,
- particular,
- pastose,
- penciled,
- penned,
- personifying,
- perspicuous,
- photographic,
- pictographic,
- pictorial,
- picturable,
- pictural,
- picturesque,
- plain,
- polychrome,
- portraying,
- precise,
- printed,
- realistic,
- representational,
- representative,
- representing,
- running,
- scenographic,
- scriptorial,
- scriptural,
- scumbled,
- shorthand,
- simulative,
- striking,
- stylographic,
- suggestive,
- symbolizing,
- telling,
- true to life,
- typifying,
- unambiguous,
- unmistakable,
- visible,
- visual,
- vivid,
- well-defined,
- well-drawn,
- written
- expressive
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- characterized by expression; "a very expressive face" related words >
- Christophanic,
- Satanophanic,
- alive,
- allegorical,
- allusive,
- angelophanic,
- appearing,
- associational,
- connotational,
- connotative,
- definable,
- delineative,
- demonstrating,
- demonstrative,
- denominative,
- denotational,
- denotative,
- depictive,
- descriptive,
- designative,
- diagnostic,
- disclosive,
- displaying,
- eloquent,
- emblematic,
- emotional,
- epiphanic,
- evidential,
- evincive,
- exhibitive,
- explicit,
- expositional,
- expositive,
- expository,
- extended,
- extensional,
- facund,
- faithful,
- figural,
- figurative,
- forceful,
- full of meaning,
- full of point,
- full of substance,
- graphic,
- identifying,
- ideographic,
- idiosyncratic,
- imaginative,
- implicative,
- incarnating,
- incarnational,
- indicating,
- indicative,
- indicatory,
- individual,
- intelligible,
- intensional,
- interpretable,
- lifelike,
- lively,
- loaded,
- manifestative,
- materializing,
- meaning,
- meaningful,
- meaty,
- metaphorical,
- moving,
- naming,
- naturalistic,
- pathognomonic,
- peculiar,
- pictorial,
- pithy,
- pneumatophanic,
- poignant,
- pointed,
- pregnant,
- presentational,
- promulgatory,
- provocative,
- readable,
- realistic,
- referential,
- representative,
- responsive,
- revealing,
- revelational,
- revelatory,
- rich,
- semantic,
- semiotic,
- sententious,
- showing,
- signalizing,
- significant,
- significative,
- signifying,
- spirited,
- striking,
- substantial,
- suggestive,
- symbolic,
- symbolistic,
- symbological,
- symptomatic,
- symptomatologic,
- telling,
- theophanic,
- thought-provoking,
- transferred,
- true to life,
- typical,
- vivid,
- well-drawn
- lingual
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- a consonant that is produced with the tongue and other speech organs
- pertaining to or resembling or lying near the tongue; "lingual inflammation"; "the lingual surface of the teeth" related words >
- accented,
- alveolar,
- apical,
- apico-alveolar,
- apico-dental,
- articulated,
- assimilated,
- back,
- barytone,
- bilabial,
- broad,
- cacuminal,
- central,
- cerebral,
- checked,
- close,
- consonant,
- consonantal,
- continuant,
- dental,
- descriptive,
- dissimilated,
- dorsal,
- enunciated,
- flat,
- front,
- glide,
- glossal,
- glottal,
- glottochronological,
- grammatic,
- graphemic,
- guttural,
- hard,
- heavy,
- high,
- intonated,
- labial,
- labiodental,
- labiovelar,
- lateral,
- lax,
- lexicographic,
- lexicological,
- lexicostatistical,
- light,
- linguiform,
- linguistic,
- lingulate,
- liquid,
- low,
- metalinguistic,
- mid,
- monophthongal,
- morphological,
- morphophonemic,
- muted,
- narrow,
- nasal,
- nasalized,
- nuncupative,
- occlusive,
- open,
- oral,
- oxytone,
- palatal,
- palatalized,
- parol,
- pharyngeal,
- pharyngealized,
- philological,
- phonemic,
- phonetic,
- phonic,
- phonological,
- pitch,
- pitched,
- posttonic,
- pronounced,
- psycholinguistic,
- retroflex,
- rounded,
- said,
- semantic,
- semivowel,
- soft,
- sonant,
- sounded,
- speech,
- spoken,
- stopped,
- stressed,
- strong,
- structural,
- surd,
- syllabic,
- syntactic,
- tense,
- thick,
- throaty,
- tonal,
- tonguelike,
- tonic,
- twangy,
- unaccented,
- unrounded,
- unstressed,
- unwritten,
- uttered,
- velar,
- verbal,
- viva voce,
- vocal,
- vocalic,
- vocalized,
- vocoid,
- voiced,
- voiceful,
- voiceless,
- vowel,
- vowellike,
- weak,
- wide
- phonetic
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- of or relating to the scientific study of speech sounds; "phonetic analysis"
- of or relating to speech sounds; "phonetic transcription" related words >
- accented,
- alveolar,
- apical,
- apico-alveolar,
- apico-dental,
- arrowhead,
- articulated,
- assimilated,
- back,
- barytone,
- bilabial,
- broad,
- cacuminal,
- central,
- cerebral,
- character,
- checked,
- close,
- consonant,
- consonantal,
- continuant,
- cuneiform,
- demotic character,
- dental,
- descriptive,
- determinative,
- dissimilated,
- dorsal,
- flat,
- front,
- glide,
- glossal,
- glottal,
- glottochronological,
- grammalogue,
- grammatic,
- graphemic,
- guttural,
- hard,
- heavy,
- hieratic symbol,
- hieroglyph,
- hieroglyphic,
- hieroglyphics,
- high,
- hiragana,
- ideogram,
- ideograph,
- intonated,
- kana,
- katakana,
- labial,
- labiodental,
- labiovelar,
- lateral,
- lax,
- lexicographic,
- lexicological,
- lexicostatistical,
- light,
- lingual,
- linguistic,
- liquid,
- logogram,
- logograph,
- low,
- metalinguistic,
- mid,
- monophthongal,
- morphological,
- morphophonemic,
- muted,
- narrow,
- nasal,
- nasalized,
- occlusive,
- ogham,
- open,
- oxytone,
- palatal,
- palatalized,
- pharyngeal,
- pharyngealized,
- philological,
- phonemic,
- phonetic symbol,
- phonic,
- phonological,
- pictogram,
- pictograph,
- pitch,
- pitched,
- posttonic,
- psycholinguistic,
- radical,
- retroflex,
- rounded,
- rune,
- semantic,
- semivowel,
- shorthand,
- soft,
- sonant,
- stopped,
- stressed,
- strong,
- structural,
- surd,
- syllabic,
- syntactic,
- tense,
- thick,
- throaty,
- tonal,
- tonic,
- twangy,
- unaccented,
- unrounded,
- unstressed,
- velar,
- vocalic,
- vocoid,
- voiced,
- voiceless,
- vowel,
- vowellike,
- weak,
- wedge,
- wide,
- word letter
- naturalistic
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- representing what is real; not abstract or ideal; "realistic portraiture"; "a realistic novel"; "in naturalistic colors"; "the school of naturalistic writers" related words >
- Cyrenaic,
- Eleatic,
- Epicurean,
- Marxian,
- Marxist,
- Megarian,
- Stoic,
- animist,
- animistic,
- atomistic,
- authentic,
- bona fide,
- candid,
- card-carrying,
- characteristic,
- commonsense,
- cosmotheistic,
- delineative,
- depictive,
- descriptive,
- dinkum,
- distinctive,
- distinguishing,
- eclectic,
- empirical,
- eudaemonistic,
- exemplary,
- existential,
- expositive,
- expressive,
- faithful,
- following the letter,
- general,
- genuine,
- good,
- graphic,
- hedonic,
- hedonist,
- hedonistic,
- honest,
- honest-to-God,
- humanist,
- humanistic,
- hylomorphous,
- hylotheistic,
- idealistic,
- inartificial,
- instrumentalist,
- lawful,
- legitimate,
- lifelike,
- literal,
- materialist,
- materialistic,
- mechanist,
- mechanistic,
- metaphysical,
- monistic,
- natural,
- naturalist,
- naturistic,
- nominalist,
- normal,
- orderly,
- original,
- panlogistical,
- pantheistic,
- positivist,
- positivistic,
- pragmatic,
- pragmatist,
- pure,
- quintessential,
- rationalistic,
- real,
- realist,
- realistic,
- regular,
- representative,
- rightful,
- sample,
- scholastic,
- sensationalistic,
- simon-pure,
- simple,
- sincere,
- sterling,
- sure-enough,
- syncretistic,
- theistic,
- transcendentalist,
- transcendentalistic,
- true to form,
- true to life,
- true to nature,
- true to reality,
- true to type,
- typal,
- typic,
- typical,
- unadulterated,
- unaffected,
- unassumed,
- unassuming,
- uncolored,
- unconcocted,
- uncopied,
- uncounterfeited,
- undisguised,
- undisguising,
- undistorted,
- unexaggerated,
- unexceptional,
- unfabricated,
- unfanciful,
- unfeigned,
- unfeigning,
- unfictitious,
- unflattering,
- unimagined,
- unimitated,
- uninvented,
- unpretended,
- unpretending,
- unqualified,
- unromantic,
- unsimulated,
- unspecious,
- unsynthetic,
- unvarnished,
- usual,
- utilitarian,
- verbal,
- verbatim,
- veridical,
- verisimilar,
- vitalistic,
- vivid,
- voluntarist,
- voluntaristic,
- well-drawn,
- word-for-word
- vivid
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- having the clarity and freshness of immediate experience; "a vivid recollection" related words >
- active,
- acute,
- aggressive,
- agog,
- alacritous,
- alive,
- all agog,
- animate,
- animated,
- anxious,
- apish,
- avid,
- bedazzling,
- blinding,
- brave,
- breathless,
- bright,
- bright and shining,
- bright-hued,
- brilliant,
- brisk,
- burning,
- bursting to,
- clear,
- colorful,
- colory,
- creative,
- dazzling,
- deep-colored,
- delineative,
- delineatory,
- depictive,
- descriptive,
- desirous,
- detailed,
- distinct,
- dramatic,
- dynamic,
- eager,
- echoic,
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