Fromdiacritic +-al.
diacritical (comparativemorediacritical,superlativemostdiacritical)
- Capable ofdistinguishing or of making adistinction.
- Of, pertaining to, or serving as adiacritic
1869, Alexander John Ellis,On Early English Pronunciation:The reduplicated forms and the fineness of thediacritical strokes, render his book troublesome to the reader
capable of distinguishing
of, pertaining to, or serving as a diacritic
Translations to be checked
diacritical (pluraldiacriticals)
- Synonym ofdiacritical mark(adnoun equivalent).
1999, Lee Seong-whan,Advances In Handwriting Recognition, page54:This is often the case whendiacriticals are written at the end of the word - the last character ends, but there is still some ink in the original writing order that should have been used up in the course of processing the various t's, i's, and apostrophes in the body of the word.
