Ungrammatical

Definition: Ungrammatical

Ungrammatical

Adjective

1. Not grammatical; not conforming to the rules of grammar or accepted usage.

Date "ungrammatical" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1782. (references)

Synonym: Ungrammatical

Synonym: ill-formed (adj). (additional references)

Antonym: grammatical (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Ungrammatical

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Solecism	Adjective: ungrammatical; incorrect, inaccurate; faulty; improper, incongruous; solecistic, solecistical.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Ungrammatical

English words defined with "ungrammatical": misconstruction ♦ run-on sentence ♦ ungrammatically. (references)

Specialty definitions using "ungrammatical": Has went ♦ Look at here ♦ SLANG. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Ungrammatical

"Ungrammatical" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Ungrammatical" is used about 77 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	77	37,929

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Ungrammatical

Language		Translations for "ungrammatical"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		不通 (be blocked up, be illogical, be impassable, be obstructed, be ungrammatical, not make sense). (various references)

German		ungrammatisch (ungrammatically). (various references)

Greek		σόλοικοσ (solecistic), μη σύμφωνοσ με την γραμματικήν. (various references)

Manx		neughrammeydoil. (various references)

Pig Latin		ammaticalungray

Romanian		negramatical. (various references)

Russian		неграмотный (illiterate, letterless, unlettered). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		negramatički. (various references)

Spanish		antigramatical. (various references)

Turkish		kuralsız (anomalous, irregular, not grammatical, solecistic), dilbilgisi kurallarına uymayan (solecistic). (various references)

Vietnamese		sai ngữ pháp, không đúng ngữ pháp. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Ungrammatical

Derivations
	Words beginning with "ungrammatical": ungrammaticalities, ungrammaticality. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Ungrammatical

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-a-c-g-i-l-m-m-n-r-t-u"
	-2 letters: grammatical.
	-3 letters: maculating.
	-4 letters: actuarial, alaruming, lacunaria.
	-5 letters: alarming, antalgic, armagnac, calamari, calamint, claimant, clamming, craaling, cramming, curating, maculing, magmatic, malarian, mamaliga, maniacal, manurial, marginal, maturing, mulcting, multicar, nautical, tragical, tramming.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-a-c-g-i-l-m-m-n-r-t-u"
	+3 letters: ungrammaticality.
	+5 letters: ungrammaticalities.
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