idiomless

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English

Etymology

From idiom +‎ -less.

Adjective

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, John T. Saywell, editor, 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;

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