ungrammatical
2
6.3
- adjective
- /ʌnˈɡræmətɪkəl/
:
gramaticalmente incorrecto
- So we've drawn this distinction now between meaningless on the one hand and ungrammatical on the other.
- ungrammatical sentence
Examples
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Now, this is totally ungrammatical to me, even after more than 100 hearings in the last 18 months.
Blog text (22) -
Such cases are also entirely ungrammatical for me, so a good part of their data represents a language distinct from mine.
Academic text (2006) -
Tell me my Latin is not only ungrammatical, but common.
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And some folks say that a construction like 'the fact is, is' is ungrammatical.
Blog text (16) -
For, despite 26, I find all of the following ungrammatical:
Academic text (2006) -
For many, if not most, speakers of English, however, sentence 28 is ungrammatical under this interpretation.
Academic text (2006) -
Which, apart from being ungrammatical, is a logical fallacy.
Blog text (4) -
In the ungrammatical cases, no preposition follows the head noun.
Academic text (2006) -
The simple irony of our ineptness during the first period of research is especially marked by our halting and ungrammatical speech.
Academic text (1993) -
The teacher explained that the student's essay was ungrammatical and needed revisions.
Synonyms
1
7.2
Does not follow the rules of grammar
Having a grammar mistake in speech or writing
Antonyms
How Grammatical
- Specialized
3
4.4
18
3.0
- Specialized
1
6.7
2
6.3
- Specialized
1
7.2
Surface Forms
Morphology
ungrammatical = grammatical (transparent) = un + grammar + ical
Adding the productive negation un- to 'grammatical' yields the expected negative meaning; 'grammatical' itself is a regular adjective formed from 'grammar' + '-ical'.
Etymology
Ungrammatical breaks into un- ('not') and grammar ('the rules of a language'), so it means 'not following the rules of grammar'.