idiomatic
adjective
peculiar to or characteristic of a particular language or dialect.
nonidiomatic
-
a word derived from
idiomatic.
Example Sentences
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On a more fundamental level, many American viewers not accustomed to Asian series will be bemused by the stilted, nonidiomatic quality of much of the crowdsourced subtitling.
From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 2023
Saturday night’s free concert at Central Park Summerstage amounted to three and a half hours of intelligent groove, informed by jazz but rarely beholden to it, with improvisation as a binding but nonidiomatic force.
From New York Times ● Jun. 12, 2011
She doesn’t stay very long within standard jazz idioms, or even some of the favored nonidiomatic languages of free improvisation.
From New York Times ● Jan. 15, 2010
