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What is the adjective for semantic?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb semanticize which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

semantic
  1. Of or relating to semantics or the meanings of words. [from late 19th c.]
  2. (software design, of code) Reflecting intended structure and meaning.
  3. (slang, of a detail or distinction) Petty or trivial; (of a person or statement) quibbling, niggling.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “Ways of handling compounds of conditionals have been proposed on the basis of these semantic values.”
      “Nevertheless, in many cases where word order is fixed, a semantic explanation is difficult to come by.”
      “An important reason for this is that most nouns and most adjectives have rather complex semantic structures.”
semasiological
  1. Of or pertaining to semasiology.
  2. Of or pertaining to the meaning of a lexeme.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “The notion of action signs in semasiological theory, for example, presupposes a view of human beings as meaning-making agents.”
      “The structure of the DRG is semasiological, i.e. starting from the word and not the thing.”
      “In spite of the above critical remarks, I do not wish to deny the value of both the onomasiological and the semasiological approaches in semantic studies.”
semantosyllabic
  1. (linguistics) Of a grapheme: combining semantic and phonetic information.
semantical
  1. Pertaining to or resembling semantics
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The professor delivered a semantical analysis of the sentence, highlighting its underlying meaning and linguistic nuances.”
      “If so, the whole identity issue is undecidable, since one is demanding metaphysical answers to questions that are in large part semantical.”
      “As we shall see later on, this semantical blurring is not without importance.”
semanticizable
  1. Capable of being semanticized.
semanticized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of semanticize
semanticizing
  1. present participle of semanticize
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