lexical

The definition of lexical is something that relates to vocabulary or the words which make up a language.

(adjective)

An example of lexical used as an adjective is the phrase lexical similarity which means words that appear to be similar to other words.

See lexical in Webster's New World College Dictionary

adjective

of a vocabulary, or stock of words, as that of a language; specif., of words as isolated items of vocabulary rather than elements in a grammatical structure
of, or having the nature of, a lexicon or lexicography

Origin: ModL lexicalis < Gr lexikon, lexicon

See lexical in American Heritage Dictionary 4

adjective

Origin:

Origin: lexic(on)

Origin: + -al¹

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