syntactic
/sɪnˈtæktɪk/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.82 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of, related to or connected with syntax.
adj
Containing morphemes that are combined in the same order as they would be if they were separate words e.g. greenfinch
Example Sentences
- "The sentence “I saw he” contains a syntactic mistake."
- "the rules specifying how agglutinative morphemes are combined with each other are more syntactic than morphological by their nature and thus are closer to rules specifying how word-forms are combined with each other."
- "Sometimes, a preposition like of just marks the function from a noun, as in the picture of the dog. Here, the function is picture, and of is a purely syntactic marker of the argument of picture, the dog. In this case, there is no semantics for the preposition of."
Etymology
From New Latin syntacticus, from Ancient Greek συντακτικός (suntaktikós).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more syntactic (comparative)
most syntactic (superlative)