NONSTANDARD

nonstandard

(adjective) not standard; not accepted as a model of excellence; “a nonstandard text”

nonstandard

(adjective) varying from or not adhering to a standard; “nonstandard windows”; “envelopes of nonstandard sizes”; “nonstandard lengths of board”

nonstandard

(adjective) not conforming to the language usage of a prestige group within a community; “a nonstandard dialect is one used by uneducated speakers or socially disfavored groups”; “the common core of nonstandard words and phrases in folk speech”- A.R.Dunlap

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

nonstandard (comparative more nonstandard, superlative most nonstandard)

Not standard.

Synonym: unstandard

Antonym: standard

(linguistics) Not conforming to the standard variety, or to the language as used by the majority of its speakers.

Synonym: substandard

Noun

nonstandard (plural nonstandards)

Something that is not standard.

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

16 November 2024

LEAVE

(verb) go and leave behind, either intentionally or by neglect or forgetfulness; “She left a mess when she moved out”; “His good luck finally left him”; “her husband left her after 20 years of marriage”; “she wept thinking she had been left behind”


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Coffee Trivia

According to Guinness World Records, the most massive cup of coffee contained 22,739.14 liters and was created by Alcaldía Municipal de Chinchiná (Colombia) at Parque de Bolívar, Chinchiná, Caldas, Colombia, on 15 June 2019. Fifty people worked for more than a month to build this giant cup. The drink prepared was Arabic coffee.

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