NONGRAMMATICAL Synonyms: 32 Similar and Opposite Words

nongrammatical

adjective

Definition of nongrammatical

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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

But Jewish religious nationalists, particularly uneducated young men, remain a threat, said John Munayer of the Rossing Center for Education and Dialogue, an interreligious organization in Jerusalem.

— ABC News, ABC News, 14 Aug. 2026
The report says there's been progress, but minorities, along with people who are poor and uneducated, still face higher death rates.

— Stephanie Stahl, CBS News, 24 June 2026

Definition of uneducated

Adjective

Young detainees have described inedible food, substandard medical care and callous treatment at the hands of guards and staff at immigration facilities.

— Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2026
Trump paid them substandard wages, and their working conditions were appalling.

— Kai Bird, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of substandard

Adjective

Videos broadcast by regional news outlets and posted on social media show violent torrents of water surging through valleys and mountain passes, tearing down bridges and dams and sweeping away buildings.

— Arshad R. Zargar, CBS News, 26 Aug. 2026
Her many regional stage credits include Sugar Babies, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Annie Get Your Gun, Guys & Dolls, The Unsinkable Molly Brown, The Pajama Game, Miss Margarida’s Way and Nunsense.

— Greg Evans, Deadline, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of regional

Adjective

In between some of the manager’s more clip-worthy quotes, there were more of his usual — and not incorrect — platitudes.

— Cody Stavenhagen, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026
Mosseri said the plaintiff lawyers are incorrect in suggesting that Meta also reduced the number of researchers studying youth mental health harms after Haugen’s leaks.

— Jonathan Vanian, CNBC, 25 Aug. 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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