syntactic

Adjective

Meaning

Alt. of Syntactical

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

syntactical grammatical language etymological correct structural linguistic verbal phonetic expressive idiomatic philological lingual morphological parser
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Antonyms

gaudy false informal incorrect inaccurate inappropriate
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Related terms

syntax

Phrases with the word

syntactic arrangement syntactic middle voice syntactic saccharin syntactic syrup syntactic category syntactic expletive

Examples

Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon. Alan Perlis

It was Rudolf Carnap's dream for the last three decades of his life to show that science proceeds by a formal syntactic method; today no one to my knowledge holds out any hope for that project. Hilary Putnam

In today's computer science curricula ... almost all their time is devoted to formal classification of syntactic language types, defeatist unsolvability theories, folklore about systems programming, and generally trivial fragments of "optimization of logic design" Marvin Minsky

the syntactic rules of a language Source: Internet

A function call or syntactic form is written as a list with the function or operator's name first, and the arguments following; for instance, a function f that takes three arguments would be called as (f arg1 arg2 arg3). Source: Internet

An alternative to syntactic salt is generating compiler warnings when there is high probability that the code is a result of a mistake – a practice common in modern C/C++ compilers. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

synset synstatin synsystematic syntactic arrangement syntactic category syntactic expletive