linguistic /lɪŋˈɡwɪstɪk/ adjective3 •Of or relating to language.Swearing doesn't just mean what we now understand by "dirty words". It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths. — 2013 •Of or relating to linguistics.We have argued that the ability to make judgments about well-formedness and structure holds at all four major linguistic levels — Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, and Semantics. — 1988 •Relating to a computer language.The message is that we need language features that deal with schematic and linguistic discrepancies. — 1993