Meanings
- not comparableOf, or pertaining to, morphology.
There is some morphological syntax to adverbs in English: Many can be formed from adjectives, plus the suffix -ly.
2025, Edward A. F. Gibson, “Dependency Grammar” (chapter 3), in Syntax: A Cognitive Approach, MIT Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 672 more examples
In much the same way, morphological competence is reflected in the native speaker's intuitions about morphological well-formedness and structure. For example, native speakers of English know that van and can have the respective plural forms vans and cans, but that the plural of man is men and not *mans. [...]
1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational Grammar, Cambridge: University Press, →ISBN, page 5Before I simply create a root meaning X, is there any way I can use Ithkuil morphological categories or the 150 or so suffix categories to derive this word from a more general or primary word?
2006, “Ithkuil Q & A”, in The Conlanger's Library, archived from the original on 14 Jan 2025, page 3
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiverelating to or concerned with the formation of admissible words in a language
adjectivepertaining to geological structure
adjectiverelating to or concerned with the morphology of plants and animals
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Englishmorphology
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
- Englishmorphological
From morphology + -ical.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Arabic مُورْفُولُوجِي, صَرْفِيّ
- مُورْفُولُوجِي (murfulujī)relating to morphology
- صَرْفِيّ (ṣarfiyy)relating to morphology
Bengali অঙ্গসংস্থানসংক্রান্ত
- অঙ্গসংস্থানসংক্রান্ত (oṅgośoṅsthanośoṅkranto)relating to morphology
Catalan morfològic
- morfològicrelating to morphology
Chinese Mandarin 形態學的 /形态学的
- 形態學的 /形态学的 (xíngtàixué de)relating to morphology
Czech morfologický
- morfologickýrelating to morphology
Danish morfologisk
- morfologiskrelating to morphology
Dutch morfologisch
- morfologischrelating to morphology
Finnish morfologinen, muoto-opillinen
- morfologinenrelating to morphology
- muoto-opillinenrelating to morphology
French morphologique
- morphologiquerelating to morphology
German morphologisch
- morphologischrelating to morphology
Hungarian morfológiai, alaktani
- morfológiairelating to morphology
- alaktanirelating to morphology
Italian morfologico
- morfologicorelating to morphology
Korean 형태학의
- 형태학의 (hyeongtaehag-ui)relating to morphology
Latin morphologicus
- morphologicusrelating to morphology
Latvian morfoloģisks
- morfoloģisksrelating to morphology
Norwegian Bokmål morfologisk
- morfologiskrelating to morphology
Polish morfologiczny
- morfologicznyrelating to morphology
Portuguese morfológico
- morfológicorelating to morphology
Romanian morfologic
- morfologicrelating to morphology
Russian морфологи́ческий
- морфологи́ческий (morfologíčeskij)relating to morphology
Spanish morfológico
- morfológicorelating to morphology
Swedish morfologisk
- morfologiskrelating to morphology
Ukrainian морфологі́чний
- морфологі́чний (morfolohíčnyj)relating to morphology
Cite this entry
morphological. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/morphological
“morphological.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/morphological. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “morphological,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/morphological.
Source: morphological on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.