nongrammatical

[non-gruh-mat-i-kuhl]

adjective

1. (of a sentence or expression) not conforming to the grammatical rules of a given language.

Word History and Origins

Origin of nongrammatical¹

First recorded in 1950–55; non- + grammatical

Example Sentences

Back in 2013, Bitcoin mania was reaching its first feverish peak, and everyone was sharing doge memes—a picture of a surprised/frightened/skeptical-looking shiba inu with some nongrammatical exclamations in comic sans, like “wow,” “much scared,” and “very snack.”

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A printer’s misreading, Mr. Bruster argues, may also explain a particularly clumsy and nongrammatical stretch in the Additional Passages.

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