单词 | grammarless |
释义 | grammarlessadj. Having no grammar. 1. a. Of a language: Destitute of a system of grammatical forms, or of features susceptible of grammatical treatment. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > [adjective] > characterized by grammar unaccidentedc1740 resupinate1836 atactic1842 amalgamate1849 anaptotic1850 isolating1860 encapsulating1868 grammarless1868 uninflected1875 amalgamating1877 intercalative1882 postmutative1899 positional1908 1868 Farrar in Jrnl. Philol. No. 2. 20 Chinese has been for thousands of years monosyllabic and grammarless. 1891 Harper's Mag. July 220/1 Ours is really a grammarless language. b. Of persons, speech, compositions: Showing ignorance of grammar. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > inaccuracy, inexactness > incorrectness of language > [adjective] > in grammar incongruous1616 ungrammatical1654 ingrammatical1672 ungrammatic1806 grammarless1823 unsyntactical1865 asyntactic1879 1823 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 14 294 Miserable, bald, and even grammarless English is employed. 1891 Daily News 14 Feb. 5/1 Futile romances, tasteless, senseless, grammarless. 2. Having no book of grammar.Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1854 Fraser's Mag. 50 317 Battling, grammarless and dictionaryless, with a work in a strange idiom. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online September 2019). < |
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