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unstandard

unstandard adjective: not standard; not at standard, or at a level other than that which is considered standard.

Adjective

unstandard (comparative more unstandard, superlative most unstandard)

  1. Not standard; not at standard, or at a level other than that which is considered standard
    • Similarly, to take twenty-five years of free-form, cross-cutting social, political, economic, and historical writing growing out of work at a single, unstandard, American institution and isolate it as an "era" in such writing — a stage, a phase, a line of thought — is to pursue an agenda, take a...2001, Joan Wallach Scott, Debra Keates, Schools of Thought: Twenty-five Years of Interpretive Social Science
    • In particular reference to our own topic, the Drugs Act and Rules can prevent a pharmacist from selling drugs which are not of standard quality but cannot prevent him from selling his commodities at a cheaper rate than that of his fellow pharmacists in his area or from indulging in a cut throat...2008, Dr. M. D. Burande, Drug Store And Business Management

Forms of unstandard

comparativemore unstandard
superlativemost unstandard

Origin of unstandard

From un- + standard.

Questions about unstandard

What does unstandard mean?
Unstandard means not standard; not at standard, or at a level other than that which is considered standard.
What part of speech is unstandard?
Unstandard is an adjective.

Words near unstandard in the dictionary

  1. unstan
  2. unstanchable
  3. unstanchably
  4. unstanched
  5. unstand
  6. unstandard
  7. unstandardised
  8. unstandardized
  9. unstanding
  10. unstanzaic
  11. unstaple

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