grammatical

adjective

gram·​mat·​i·​cal grə-ˈma-ti-kəl 

1

: of or relating to grammar

2

: conforming to the rules of grammar

a grammatical sentence

grammaticality

grə-ˌma-tə-ˈka-lə-tē 

noun

grammaticalness

grə-ˈma-ti-kəl-nəs 

noun

Examples of grammatical in a Sentence

That sentence is not grammatical.

Recent Examples on the Web

The days of good old-fashioned phishing attacks using email messages laden with spelling and grammatical errors, informing you of a bogus lottery win or an unexpected inheritance, are long over. —Davey Winder, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2025

Transcriptions of episodes of the Outside Podcast are created with a mix of speech recognition software and human transcribers, and may contain some grammatical errors or slight deviations from the audio. —Outside Online, 19 Feb. 2025

This admonition of questionable grammatical construction is echoed from the heights of academia. —Eric Heavner, Baltimore Sun, 18 Jan. 2025

None of the animals got anywhere close to full grammatical sentences. —Camille Bromley Gabra Zackman Krish Seenivasan David Mason, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2025

Word History

Etymology

see grammar

First Known Use

1530, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Phrases Containing grammatical

• grammatical gender
• grammatical meaning

Rhymes for grammatical

• dogmatical
• fanatical
• sabbatical
• emblematical
• enigmatical
• kinematical
• mathematical
• problematical
• ungrammatical
• statical

Kids Definition

grammatical

adjective

gram·​mat·​i·​cal grə-ˈmat-i-kəl 

1

: of or relating to grammar

2

: conforming to the rules of grammar

a grammatical sentence

grammaticality

-ˌmat-ə-ˈkal-ət-ē 

noun

grammatically

-ˈmat-i-k(ə-)lē 

adverb

grammaticalness

-kəl-nəs 

noun