ungrammatical, ill-formed
(adjective) not grammatical; not conforming to the rules of grammar or accepted usage
Source: WordNet® 3.1
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.
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).
• agrammatical
• ungrammatic
• grammatical
Source: Wiktionary
27 November 2024
(adjective) causing or able to cause nausea; “a nauseating smell”; “nauseous offal”; “a sickening stench”
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
