idiomlessとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

idiomless (not comparable)

1. without idioms.
   • 1949, American Statistical Association, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Volume 44, page 80:

     The eight proposed criteria of excellence are that: its sentences should be idiomless and ordered in wording; its words should be univocal in meaning, flectionless, phonetic in spelling and unique in pronunciation; its letters should be unique in sound and shape.

   • 1960, edited by John T. Saywell, Canadian Annual Review of Politics and Public Affairs, page 319:

     Certainly there is nothing fresh or exciting about his eclectic, idiomless, no-man's language, his monotonous, cluttered, trailing syntax, and his loosely shaped arguments.

   • 2003, Northrop Frye, Northrop Frye on Modern Culture, University of Toronto Press (→ISBN), page 199:

     It is a false analogy to say that because we should surrender national sovereignty we should also give up our language and all its literary possibilities for some dismal, idiomless Esperanto;