nonstandart
nonstandart is the nonstandard spelling of nonstandard.
Meaning of nonstandard
Adjective
nonstandard (comparative more nonstandard, superlative most nonstandard)
- Not standard.
- Synonyms:
- unstandard
- Antonyms:
- standard
- Not conforming to the standard variety, or to the language as used by the majority of its speakers.
- The resulting sequence of covert wh-pronoun + Complementiser has an overt counterpart in nonstandard varieties of English, as the following example (recorded from a BBC radio programme) illustrates:
(91) England put themselves in a position [whereby that they took a lot of credit for tonightʼs...1988, Andrew Radford, chapter 9, in Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 486
- Synonyms:
- substandard
- The resulting sequence of covert wh-pronoun + Complementiser has an overt counterpart in nonstandard varieties of English, as the following example (recorded from a BBC radio programme) illustrates:
- Using numbers or methods beyond those used in traditional analysis, often introducing new concepts like infinitesimals or hyperreal numbers in order to solve difficult problems.
- A concise and simple exposition of nonstandard methods applied to delta functions and to other generalized functions.1990, R. F. Hoskins, Standard and Nonstandard Analysis, Fundamental Theory, Techniques, and Applications, page 230
Forms of nonstandart
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more nonstandart |
| superlative | most nonstandart |
| Noun | |
| plural | nonstandarts |
Questions about nonstandart
- What is nonstandart the nonstandard spelling of?
- Nonstandart is the nonstandard spelling of nonstandard.
Words near nonstandart in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: nonstandart (page history and authors); nonstandard (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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