Meaning of idiomless | Babel Free

Definitions

without idioms.

not-comparable

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“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;”

CEFR level