Lexical may refer to:

Linguistics Lexical corpus or lexis, a complete set of all words in a language Lexical item, a basic unit of lexicographical classification Lexicon, the vocabulary of a person, language, or branch of knowledge Lexical (semiotics) or content word, words referring to things, as opposed to having only grammatical meaning Lexical verb, a member of an open class of verbs that includes all verbs except auxiliary verbs Lexical aspect, a characteristic of the meaning of verbs Lexical form, the canonical form of a word, under which it appears in dictionaries Lexical definition or dictionary definition, the meaning of a term in common usage Lexical semantics, a subfield of linguistic semantics that studies how and what the words of a language denote

Computing Lexical analysis, the process of converting a sequence of characters into a sequence of tokens Lexical Markup Framework, the ISO standard for natural language processing and machine-readable dictionary lexicons Lexical scope, a scope in computer programming

Other uses Lexical approach, a method of teaching foreign languages Lexical hypothesis, a widely used theory in personality psychology

See also Lexeme Lexicon (disambiguation)