ungrammatical

Adjective

Meaning

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

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

illiterate unlearned nonlinguistic catachrestic nonverbal untutored solecistic inerudite nonlexical solecistical ill-formed agrammatical ungrammatic

Antonyms

grammatical language linguistics etymological oratorical structural
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Related terms

ungrammaticalized

Examples

You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country. Robert Frost

A speaker may indicate dominance through arrogance using the phrase His shit don't stink (though ungrammatical, this is the accepted diction). Source: Internet

Fowler (1926), p. 559. In some cases, moving the adverbial creates an ungrammatical sentence or changes the meaning. Source: Internet

However, not only has no evidence been found of a river "Lo" predating the work where Peder Claussøn Friis first proposed this etymology, but the very name is ungrammatical in Norwegian: the correct form would have been Loaros (cf. Source: Internet

In Hausa it is ungrammatical to do the same with coordinating conjunctions. Source: Internet

For example, it would be ungrammatical to write "Mary was hugged her daughter" in order to show that Mary and her daughter shared a hug. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

ungrainy ungrammared ungrammatic ungrammaticality ungrammaticalized ungrammatically