not in accordance with the rules of a grammar
ungrammatical
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ungrammatical
adjective
Not in accord with the rules of grammar.
Related Forms:
- un′gram·mat′i·cal′i·ty
noun
- un′gram·mat′i·cal·ly
adverb
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Adjective
(comparative more ungrammatical, superlative most ungrammatical)
- (linguistics) In violation of one or more of the rules and conventions of a language as defined by the grammar, resulting in unacceptable, or incorrect usage.
Usage notes
In formal linguistics, ungrammatical sentences are labelled using an asterisk (*):
- *The subject of this sentence is.
This convention goes back at least as far as Leonard Bloomfield's Language (1933).
Origin
un- +"Ž grammatical
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