UNGRAMMATICAL

ungrammatical, ill-formed

(adjective) not grammatical; not conforming to the rules of grammar or accepted usage

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Adjective

ungrammatical (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).

Synonyms

• agrammatical

• ungrammatic

Antonyms

• grammatical

Source: Wiktionary

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