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ungeneral

ungeneral adjective: not general.

Adjective

ungeneral (comparative more ungeneral, superlative most ungeneral)

  1. Not general.
    • […] but in the mind of a layman this knowledge is unorganized and ungeneral — the linguist's task is to organize it and reduce it to a maximally simple, general system […]1979, Geoffrey Sampson, Liberty and Language, page 187

Forms of ungeneral

comparativemore ungeneral
superlativemost ungeneral

Origin of ungeneral

From un- + general.

Questions about ungeneral

What does ungeneral mean?
Ungeneral means not general.
What part of speech is ungeneral?
Ungeneral is an adjective.

Words near ungeneral in the dictionary

  1. ungendered
  2. ungenderedness
  3. ungendering
  4. ungenders
  5. ungenerable
  6. ungeneral
  7. ungeneraled
  8. ungeneralisable
  9. ungeneralised
  10. ungeneralizable
  11. ungeneralized

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