MEANING
Relating to ships, sailing, sailors, or navigation at sea.
Use it for
describing ship-related language or equipment; connecting a practice to sailing; distinguishing navigation from general marine lifeRelates something specifically to ships, sailors, or navigation rather than to everything in the ocean. Writing functions: Ships sailing and navigation.
Words that belong together
- nautical charts
- nautical terminology
- nautical skills
On the page
She learned enough nautical terminology to follow the crew’s orders.
The room’s nautical decorations included a chart and an old compass.
Word forms
- Base
- nautical
Usage notes
Normally non-gradable adjective; no ordinary comparative or superlative. Register: neutral. Commonness: moderately common (dictionary-informed qualitative editorial estimate; not a measured frequency).
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