ungrammatical
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
In violation of one or more of the rules and conventions of a language as defined by the grammar, resulting in unacceptable or incorrect usage.
Example Sentences
- "My Greek is not the tongue of Homer or Aeschylus but a sloppy ungrammatical sabir lacking Attic salt and tending to a saccharinity which sets my teeth on edge."
- "That comment seemed to anger Ingraham, who called James’ view a “barely intelligible, not to mention ungrammatical take on President Trump.”"
- "While adopting the pronoun as a nonbinary description is vastly preferable for some, Merriam-Webster says, there has also been some debate that it is ungrammatical."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English grammatical English ungrammatical From un- + grammatical.
Inflected Forms
more ungrammatical (comparative)
most ungrammatical (superlative)