nonstandard
1
6.7
- adjective
- /ˌnɒnˈstændərd/
- Specialized
:
no estándar
- The moral codes of academic philosophers tend, in fact, to be at once nonstandard and hackneyed, predictable, and seemingly unexamined.
- nonstandard dialects
- nonstandard English
- use of nonstandard
Examples
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In addition, teachers may assume a student is not gifted based on a child's language proficiency in the first and second languages, use of "nonstandard" English, accent, differing values, aspirations, and levels of motivation.
Academic text (1992) -
The survival tactics of these students vary tremendously from those of students who know either standard or nonstandard English (Johns and Espinoza 1992).
Academic text (1993) -
Since you asked... your use of "trans-woman" and "cis-men" and so on is nonstandard.
Blog text (19) -
Your point would only be valid if the definition of ACS used was somehow new or nonstandard, something you are only speculating about.
Blog text (8) -
If Chinese 'dialects' are nonstandard, then what is 'Standard Cantonese' (which is not a contradiction in terms!)?
Blog text (5) -
"Anarcho" communists have a nonstandard definition of "voluntary," as becomes apparent whenever one discusses Catalonia with them.
Blog text (32) -
Similarly, AAVE, like forms of pidgin English and many nonstandard dialects, uses the undifferentiated pronoun as a demonstrative form.
Academic text (2003) -
Jones points out that some dialect writers reveal "a racist logic of black difference and inferiority" related to the notion "that intellectual capacity was strictly limited by nonstandard speech" (45-46).
Academic text (2003) -
For example, should comparisons be limited to a Mainstream American English (MAE) standard, or could other dialect standards (in particular, nonstandard dialects such as African American English (AAE) or Appalachian English) be used?
Academic text (2015) -
Some students are discouraged from speaking in their native languages due to the perception that their use of nonstandard forms is incorrect.
Synonyms
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8.2
Not following usual rules for parts, procedures, or documents
Made without following an official or usual rule
Made without the same rules or methods
Not usual or what most people expect
Not the usual way native speakers say something
Antonyms
How Standard
675
2.7
- Formal
63
3.0
- Informal
7
6.5
- Specialized
1
6.7
228
1.4
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Nonstandard is made of the parts non- ('not') and standard ('accepted rule' or 'usual form'). So a nonstandard pronunciation or grammar does not follow the usual rules of the language and is often part of local speech.