GRAMMATIC Synonyms

• generally approved or compelling recognition

• conforming exactly or almost exactly to fact or to a standard or performing with total accuracy

• (of ideas, images, representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth; strictly correct

• endowed with authority

• free from error; especially conforming to fact or truth

• correct in opinion or judgment

• socially right or correct

• in accord with accepted standards of usage or procedure

• make right or correct

• make reparations or amends for

• censure severely

• adjust for

• punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience

• fall in value

• alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard

• treat a defect

• in accordance with convention or custom

• commonly used or practiced; usual

• being in accord with established forms and conventions and requirements (as e.g. of formal dress)

• (of spoken and written language) adhering to traditional standards of correctness and without casual, contracted, and colloquial forms

• a lavish dance requiring formal attire

• a gown for evening wear

• characteristic of or befitting a person in authority

• represented in simplified or symbolic form

• logically deductive

• refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court

• of or relating to or conforming to idiom

• of marriages and offspring; recognized as lawful

• based on known statements or events or conditions

• in accordance with recognized or accepted standards or principles

• authorized, sanctioned by, or in accordance with law

• make legal

• show or affirm to be just and legitimate

• make (an illegitimate child) legitimate; declare the legitimacy of (someone)

• consisting of or related to language

• of or relating to the scientific study of language

• sharply exact or accurate or delimited

• (of ideas, images, representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth; strictly correct

• marked by suitability or rightness or appropriateness

• having all the qualities typical of the thing specified

• limited to the thing specified

• appropriate for a condition or purpose or occasion or a person's character, needs

• in accordance with fixed order or procedure or principle

• (used of the military) belonging to or engaged in by legitimate army forces

• (of solids) having clear dimensions that can be measured; volume can be determined with a suitable geometric formula

• not constipated

• a regular patron

• a soldier in the regular army

• a dependable follower (especially in party politics)

• a garment size for persons of average height and weight

• often used as intensifiers

• conforming to a standard or pattern

• regularly scheduled for fixed times

• in accord with regular practice or procedure

• occurring at fixed intervals

• relating to a person who does something regularly

• symmetrically arranged

• not deviating from what is normal

• officially full-time

• legally valid

• having a legally established claim

• conforming to or constituting a standard of measurement or value; or of the usual or regularized or accepted kind

• established or well-known or widely recognized as a model of authority or excellence

• conforming to the established language usage of educated native speakers

• a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated

• the ideal in terms of which something can be judged

• a board measure = 1980 board feet

• the value behind the money in a monetary system

• an upright pole or beam (especially one used as a support)

• any distinctive flag

• commonly used or supplied

• regularly and widely used or sold

• relating to or caused by structure, especially political or economic structure

• relating to or having or characterized by structure

• pertaining to geological structure

• relating to or concerned with the morphology of plants and animals

• affecting or involved in structure or construction

• concerned with systematic structure in a particular field of study

• of or relating to or conforming to the rules of syntax

• characterized by order and planning

• of or relating to taxonomy

• consistent with fact or reality; not false

• expressing or given to expressing the truth

• proper alignment; the property possessed by something that is in correct or proper alignment

• as acknowledged

• accurately placed or thrown

• devoted (sometimes fanatically) to a cause or concept or truth

• conforming to definitive criteria

• worthy of being depended on

• not pretended; sincerely felt or expressed

• rightly so called

• determined with reference to the earth's axis rather than the magnetic poles

• having a legally established claim

• in tune; accurate in pitch

• accurately fitted; level

• make level, square, balanced, or concentric

• well grounded in logic or truth or having legal force

• still legally acceptable