Lexical definition

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

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

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(linguistics) Concerning the vocabulary, words or morphemes of a language.
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Of or relating to the vocabulary, words, or morphemes of a language.
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Of or relating to lexicography or a lexicon.
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(linguistics) Concerning lexicography or a lexicon or dictionary.
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Of, or having the nature of, a lexicon or lexicography.
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Origin of lexical

  • lexic(on) –al

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin lexis, from Ancient Greek λέξις (léxis, “word") + -al.

    From Wiktionary

Lexical Sentence Examples

  • In the lexical tablets Anzan is given as the equivalent of Elamtu, and the native kings entitle themselves kings of "Anzan and Susa," as well as "princes of the Khapirti."

  • At Lexical Word Finder you can actually input the current state of the Scrabble game in the website's program.

  • This seminar starts from a purely quantitative concept of lexical collocation.

  • All Spanish translations are undertaken by translators with Spanish as their mother tongue to ensure grammatical, lexical, stylistic and cultural accuracy.

  • One example occurs in using lex with yacc, which generates parsers that call a lexical analyzer.

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