textual.

Relating to the words or text of a work.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• textual evidence
• textual analysis

On the page

The textual evidence supported a narrower claim than the biographical account.

The analysis examined textual variation across surviving versions.

Usage notes

Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: Normally relational or categorical; comparison only where the particular property admits gradation. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: formal properties, scope and scale, organizational relations, analytic representation. Disciplines: academic writing, formal methods, cross-disciplinary analysis. Commonness: moderately common.