ALTRUISTIC | • altruistic adj. Regardful of others; beneficent; unselfish. • ALTRUISTIC adj. relating to altruism. |
CASUISTIC | • casuistic adj. Relating to casuistry (attempts to solve moral dilemmas by applying general rules). • casuistic adj. Overly subtle, hair-splitting. • CASUISTIC adj. relating to casuistry, plausible but flawed moral reasoning, also CASUISTICAL. |
CROSSLINGUISTIC | • crosslinguistic adj. Spanning more than one language. • cross-linguistic adj. Alternative form of crosslinguistic. • CROSSLINGUISTIC adj. of or relating to languages of different families and types. |
ETHNOLINGUISTIC | • ethnolinguistic adj. Of or pertaining to ethnolinguistics. • ethnolinguistic adj. (Anthropology) Associated with a particular ethnicity and a particular variety of language. • ETHNOLINGUISTIC adj. pertaining to the study of the relationship between language and cultural behaviour. |
EUPHUISTIC | • euphuistic adj. Of or pertaining to euphuism. • EUPHUISTIC adj. characterised by euphuism, also EUPHUISTICAL. |
EXTRALINGUISTIC | • extralinguistic adj. Outside the realm of linguistics. • EXTRALINGUISTIC adj. lying outside the province of linguistics. |
LINGUISTIC | • linguistic adj. Of or relating to language. • linguistic adj. Of or relating to linguistics. • linguistic adj. (Computing) Relating to a computer language. |
METALINGUISTIC | • metalinguistic adj. (Linguistics) Treating words as words, rather than interacting with their meaning. • metalinguistic adj. Pertaining to metalinguistics. • METALINGUISTIC adj. of or relating to a metalanguage or to metalinguistics. |
NEUROLINGUISTIC | • neurolinguistic adj. Pertaining to neurolinguistics. • NEUROLINGUISTIC adj. relating to neurolinguistics, the branch of linguistics which deals with the processing and storage of language in the brain. |
NONLINGUISTIC | • nonlinguistic adj. Not linguistic. • NONLINGUISTIC adj. not linguistic. |
PARALINGUISTIC | • paralinguistic adj. Of or pertaining to, or communicated through, paralanguage; of or pertaining to paralinguistics. • PARALINGUISTIC adj. relating to paralinguistics. |
SOCIOLINGUISTIC | • sociolinguistic adj. Pertaining to sociolinguistics. • SOCIOLINGUISTIC adj. of or relating to the social aspects of language. |
TRUISTIC | • truistic adj. Of or pertaining to truism. • TRUISTIC adj. having the nature of a truism, an undoubted or self-evident truth. |
VENTRILOQUISTIC | • ventriloquistic adj. Of or pertaining to a ventriloquist, ventriloquists or ventriloquism. • VENTRILOQUISTIC adj. relating to ventriloquism. |