LEXICAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lexical mean? 

• LEXICAL (adjective)
  The adjective LEXICAL has 2 senses:

1. of or relating to words

2. of or relating to dictionaries

  Familiarity information: LEXICAL used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LEXICAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to words

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

lexical decision task

Pertainym:

word (a unit of language that native speakers can identify)

Derivation:

lexicon (a language user's knowledge of words)

lexis (all of the words in a language; all word forms having meaning or grammatical function)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Of or relating to dictionaries

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

lexicon (a reference book containing an alphabetical list of words with information about them)

Derivation:

lexicon (a reference book containing an alphabetical list of words with information about them)

 Context examples 

Lowest level of the Meddra terminology, related to a single PT as a synonym, lexical variant, or quasi-synonym.

(Meddra Low Level Term, NCI Thesaurus)

In the Metathesaurus, therefore, an English "term" is the group of all strings that are lexical variants of each other.

(Lexical Group Unique Identifier, NCI Thesaurus)

For English language entries in the Metathesaurus, each string is linked to all of its lexical variants or minor variations by means of a common term identifier (LUI).

(Lexical Group Unique Identifier, NCI Thesaurus)