idiomatic
Syllables: id·i·o·mat·ic/ˌɪd.iː.əˈmæt.ɪk/UK/ˌɪd.iː.əˈmat.ɪk/
idiomatic adjective: pertaining or conforming to idiom, the natural mode of expression of a language.
Adjective
idiomatic (comparative more idiomatic, superlative most idiomatic)
- Pertaining or conforming to idiom, the natural mode of expression of a language.
- The inclusion or omission of definite articles follows idiomatic norms in each language and depends on context and intent.
- In English, the only idiomatic position for a pronoun as the object of a phrasal verb is before the particle, whereas a noun as object can fall either before or after the particle; thus only he picked them up but either he picked his tools up or he picked up his tools.
- Resembling or characteristic of an idiom.
- An idiomatic phrase that warns us against Pollyannaism is "don't count your chickens before they're hatched".
- Using many idioms.
- Relating to parts or pieces which are written both within the natural physical limitations of the instrument and human body and, less so or less often, the styles of playing used on specific instruments.
- Following the conventions of the language, or doing things in the common way for the language, rather than code that is ported from another language and therefore may not follow the common conventions.
Noun
idiomatic (plural idiomatics)
- Synonym of idiom.
- A preprocessing (or text normalization) module is necessary as a front end, since TTS [text-to-speech] systems should in principle be able to read any text, including numbers, abbreviations, acronyms, and idiomatics in any format.2003, Thiery Dutoit, Yannis Stylianou, “Text-to-Speech Synthesis”, in Ruslan Mitkov, editor, The Oxford Handbook of Computational Linguistics, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 325
- Synonyms:
- idiom
idiomatic meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Telugu and Malayalam
idiomatic in Hindi
- idiomatic
- महावरेदार mahāvredār
idiomatic in Urdu
- idiomatic
- اصطلاحی istelāhī
idiomatic in Telugu
- idiomatic, provincial
- దేశీయము dēśīyamu
idiomatic in Malayalam
- vernacular, colloquial, everyday
- ശെെലീകൃതമായ, ഭാഷാസഹജമായ, ശെെലിയനുസരിച്ചുള്ള, വാമൊഴിപരമായ, ശെെലീവിശിഷ്ടം, നാടൻശെെലിയായ
More languagesFewer languages
- idiomatic in Kannada
- ಭಾಷಾನುಗುಣವಾದ, ಭಾಷಾನುರೂಪವಾದ, ಆಯಾ ಭಾಷೆಗೆ ಅನುಗುಣವಾದ, ನುಡಿಗಟ್ಟಿನ
- idiomatic in Tagalog
- kawikaanin
Examples of idiomatic in a sentence
- The word blackboard as applied to green or brown chalkboards is a misnomer but is not incorrect, as the broad sense of the word is idiomatic.
- Since the initial release of Go 1.0, there have been significant changes to the patterns that define idiomatic Go.
- It’s idiomatic to use lowercased, snake-cased field names.
Synonyms of idiomatic
Antonyms
Forms of idiomatic
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more idiomatic |
| superlative | most idiomatic |
| alternative form | idiomatick |
| Noun | |
| plural | idiomatics |
Origin of idiomatic
From Ancient Greek ἰδιωματικός (idiōmatikós, “related to an idiom”), from ἰδίωμα (idíōma, “idiom”).
Words formed from idiomatic
Words that rhyme with idiomatic
- automatic
- chromatic
- emphatic
- static
- systematic
- attic
- hexachromatic
- thematic
- aromatic
- democratic
- hepatic
- lymphatic
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- schematic
- adiabatic
- aristocratic
- asymptomatic
- athematic
- autocratic
- axiomatic
- chiasmatic
- erratic
- fanatic
- fluorochromatic
- interchromatic
- phlegmatic
- prismatic
- psychosomatic
- quadchromatic
- rheumatic
- sciatic
- stromatic
- aerobatic
- altermatic
- aposematic
- asthmatic
- bathochromatic
- bizygomatic
- bureaucratic
- chorochromatic
- chromocratic
- circumzygomatic
- coccochromatic
- curatic
- diabatic
- dyschromatic
- endolymphatic
- episematic
- epistatic
- frontozygomatic
- glymphatic
- goniochromatic
- graphematic
- herostratic
- hydroinformatic
- idiosyncratic
- immunochromatic
- infrazygomatic
- interzygomatic
- katabatic
- kinechromatic
Questions about idiomatic
- What does idiomatic mean?
- Idiomatic means pertaining or conforming to idiom, the natural mode of expression of a language.
- What is idiomatic in Hindi?
- Idiomatic in Hindi is महावरेदार (mahāvredār). See Idiomatic meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is idiomatic?
- Idiomatic can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce idiomatic?
- Idiomatic is pronounced /ˌɪd.iː.əˈmat.ɪk/ (UK).
Words near idiomatic in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: idiomatic (page history and authors); महावरेदार (Hindi) (page history and authors); اصطلاحی (Urdu) (page history and authors); దేశీయము (Telugu) (page history and authors); idiomatic (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); idiomatic (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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