lexical
/ˈlɛksɪkəl/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.98 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Concerning the vocabulary, words, sentences or morphemes of a language.
adj
Concerning lexicography or a lexicon or dictionary.
adj
adj
Relating to alphabetical order or a generalization thereof.
Example Sentences
- "So, it seems clear that the idiosyncratic restrictions relating to the range of complements which a Preposition does or does not permit are directly analo- gous to the parallel restrictions which hold in the case of Verbs. The restric- tions concerned are not categorial in nature (i.e. they are not associated with every single item belonging to a given category): on the contrary, they are lexical in nature (that is to say, they are properties of individual lexical items, so that different words belonging to the same category permit a different range of complements)."
- "a lexical verb"
Etymology
From Latin lexis, from Ancient Greek λέξις (léxis, “word”) + -al.