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ungraˈmmatical, a.
[un-1 7 and 5 b.]
1. a. Not in accordance with the rules of grammar.
1654Jer. Taylor Real Pres. §5. 88 [To] expound it in a sense which suffers a violence and a most unnatural, ungrammatical torture. 1679Dryden Troil. & Cress. Pref. ⁋1 Of those [words] which we understand, some are ungrammatical, others coarse. 1749Chesterfield Let. 5 Dec., His diction was not only inelegant, but frequently ungrammatical, always vulgar. 1821Lamb Elia i. Mrs. Battle on Whist, She called it an ungrammatical game. 1848Thackeray Van. Fair xxxii, French..of a very ungrammatical sort. 1883Law Rep. 11 Q.B. Div. 614 A defining section, confused and ungrammatical.
b. Not observing the rules of grammar.
1859Habits of Gd. Society iii. 155, I am wondering whether everybody arranges his wardrobe as our ungrammatical nurses used to do ours. 1871Earle Philol. Eng. Tongue 412 So they (the ungrammatical people) made a plural this-e.
2. At variance with correct rule or method.
1851Ruskin Mod. Paint. i. ii. ii. ii. §12 Some really ungrammatical and false picture of the old masters. 1903G. Baldwin Brown Arts Early Eng. II. viii. 327 The enrichment of the wall surfaces..is..in parts quite ungrammatical.
Hence ˌungrammatiˈcality; ungraˈmmaticalness.
1698Christ Exalted §xi. 9 Omitting several Blunders of Ungrammaticalness. 1803Gentl. Mag. LXXIII. i. 145 To vindicate the dialect of London..from the imputation of vulgarisms and ungrammaticalness. 1961Word XVII. 6 On the other hand, sentences which are not universally rejected do not show ungrammaticality either total, or to a significant degree. 1967R. W. Langacker Language & its Structure ii. iv. 94 It is important not to confuse ungrammaticalness with excessive complexity that makes a sentence difficult or impossible to use. 1969D. T. Langendoen Study of Syntax ii. 8 Ungrammaticality arises not when there is merely internal contradiction within a linguistic object, but when it is felt that the object possesses some gross deformity in comparison with sentences in the language. 1975Language LI. 579 The two sources of ungrammaticality in written texts are slips of the pen..and deliberate breaches of grammar. |
