单词 | nonstandard |
释义 | nonstandard (once / 168848 pages) adj WORD FAMILY standard: nonstandard, standardise, standardize, standards, substandard+/standardise: standardisation, standardised, standardiser, standardising/standardization: standardizations/standardize: standardization, standardized, standardizer, standardizes, standardizing/standardizer: standardizers USAGE EXAMPLESIRREGARDLESS: It’s considered a “nonstandard” word for regardless. Seattle Times(Dec 18, 2016) A gas pipeline, while also nonstandard with large capital expenditure needs, is unlikely to be a lucrative project with high returns. Wall Street Journal(Dec 13, 2016) For a company telling investors to look at nonstandard accounting measures, such an error doesn’t inspire confidence. Wall Street Journal(Nov 01, 2016) 1adj varying from or not adhering to a standard nonstandard windows envelopes of nonstandard sizes nonstandard lengths of board Syn|Ant deficient, inferior, substandard falling short of some prescribed norm nonnormativenot based on a norm standard conforming to or constituting a standard of measurement or value; or of the usual or regularized or accepted kind normalconforming with or constituting a norm or standard or level or type or social norm; not abnormal modularconstructed with standardized units or dimensions allowing flexibility and variety in use regularconforming to a standard or pattern regulationprescribed by or according to regulation standardised, standardizedbrought into conformity with a standard stockroutine 2adj not standard; not accepted as a model of excellence a nonstandard text Ant standard established or well-known or widely recognized as a model of authority or excellence orthodoxadhering to what is commonly accepted authoritative, classic, classical, definitiveof recognized authority or excellence basic, canonic, canonicalreduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality casebook, textbookaccording to or characteristic of a casebook or textbook; typical criterial, criterionalserving as a basis for evaluation 3adj not conforming to the language usage of a prestige group within a community a nonstandard dialect is one used by uneducated speakers or socially disfavored groups "the common core of nonstandard words and phrases in folk speech"- A.R.Dunlap Syn|Ant bad nonstandard unacceptable, unacceptednot conforming to standard usage received, standard conforming to the established language usage of educated native speakers acceptablejudged to be in conformity with approved usage classical(language) having the form used by ancient standard authors |
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