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idiotistic

idiotistic adjective: specific to one idiolect.

Adjective

idiotistic (comparative more idiotistic, superlative most idiotistic)

  1. Specific to one idiolect.
    • He ridicules the ambition of German writers to be classic, as Lessing had ridiculed their eagerness to be French. “Let us,” he says, “be idiotistic writers, adapting ourselves to the peculiarities of our people and our language; whether we are classic posterity may find out."1890, The Encyclopaedia Britannica
    • This lexical archive of intra-dictionary citations will continue to be built as the fascicles of the dictionary appear. Its primary purpose is to counteract any lingering idiotistic characteristics that the original database for the dictionary may have had, and to make optimum use of citations...1990, Hugo Bekker, William C. McDonald, Winder McConnell, Fide Et Amore
  2. (informal, nonstandard) Synonym of idiotic.
    • Further, you will not acieve^([sic]) your anything by posting idiotistic threads like these, apart from resorting to spam and swearing.1998 May 21, MacFS User, “DOUBLE HEADED EAGLE”, in soc.culture.greek (Usenet)
    • you idiotistic suburbanite nincompoop yuppie crackpot, why don't you just shut up?2005 December 7, Anraku, “Why is modern”, in talk.religion.buddhism (Usenet)
    Synonyms:
    idiotic

Synonyms of idiotistic

Forms of idiotistic

comparativemore idiotistic
superlativemost idiotistic

Questions about idiotistic

What does idiotistic mean?
Idiotistic means specific to one idiolect.
What part of speech is idiotistic?
Idiotistic is an adjective.

Words near idiotistic in the dictionary

  1. idioticy
  2. idiotish
  3. idiotism
  4. idiotisms
  5. idiotist
  6. idiotistic
  7. idiotists
  8. idiotize
  9. idiotized
  10. idiotizes
  11. idiotizing

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