NONGRAMMATICAL Synonyms: 32 Similar and Opposite Words

nongrammatical

adjective

Definition of nongrammatical

as in ungrammatical

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Recent Examples of nongrammatical Runyon is writing in a nongrammatical, break-the-rules style. — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 July 2019

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Adjective

The notes were vintage O’Keeffe—brief, vivid, enlightening, and, yes, often ungrammatical, but brilliantly so.

— Calvin Tomkins, New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2025
But if language exemplifies the human capacity for internalizing grammatical conventions, then my moment of rule-breaking does not in fact expose some ungrammatical first nature.

— Harmon Siegel, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025

Definition of ungrammatical

Adjective

Ira, in my very uneducated opinion, there are eight teams in the East that could finish first, and any of those eight could be eighth.

— Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 24 Sep. 2026
As a peripheral community grows around them, this lawless terrain is suddenly subject to boundaries and contracts and taxes; both uneducated and illiterate, Isak and Inger are ill prepared for such societal evolution.

— Guy Lodge, Variety, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of uneducated

Adjective

Only light regional dishes and bites such as croquettes, Cinco Jotas ham, cheese, and quince, along with Rioja Alavesa wine, are served for lunch or supper via the Delicatessen or Egukzi Soro Bar and Garden (or room service).

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
Ethiopia’s army is now quickly regrouping and is pushing the TPLF back into Tigray, where government forces have retaken the regional airport and now occupy the capital, Mekelle.

— Cameron Hudson, semafor.com, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of regional

Adjective

The appropriate level of human involvement depends on financial exposure, customer impact, regulatory requirements, security implications, reversibility and the consequences of an incorrect decision.

— Jayasri Ranganathan, Forbes.com, 29 Sep. 2026
But predictions that the Islamic Republic would collapse proved incorrect.

— Ali Vaez, Foreign Affairs, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of incorrect

Adjective

The dialectic moves between crashing despair and hovering hope.

— Alex Ross, New Yorker, 15 June 2026
Firpi concluded that Saenz should receive dialectical behavioral therapy, or DBT, an intensive therapy originally developed for self-harming women with borderline personality disorder that is now also used to treat PTSD, eating disorders and substance use.

— Shira Moolten, Sun Sentinel, 4 June 2026

Definition of dialectical

Adjective

Error patterns go untracked, lessons go unlearned and misaligned agents continue to operate unchecked.

— Victoria Chin, Forbes.com, 19 Feb. 2026
De-Stalinization was quick and brutal, with history having the last say — a lesson guaranteed to go unlearned.

— Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 15 Feb. 2026

Definition of unlearned

Adjective

This can even affect nonstandard English speakers or people who speak a variety of English that differs from the mainstream varieties privileged in courts and schools.

— Carol Rose Little, The Conversation, 12 June 2026
Diamonds with nonstandard colors are more difficult to value, as the principle of supply and demand applies here.

— Rodion Ksonzenko, Forbes.com, 4 May 2026

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