Idiomatic

Quick meaning: Idiomatic is an adjective meaning Pertaining or conforming to idiom, the natural mode of expression of a language.

Meaning

Pertaining or conforming to idiom, the natural mode of expression of a language.

More Meanings

1. Resembling or characteristic of an idiom.
2. Using many idioms.
3. Synonym of idiom.
4. (music) Relating to parts or pieces which are written both within the natural physical limitations of the instrument and human body and, less so or less often, the styles of playing used on specific instruments.
5. (programming) Following the conventions of the language, or doing things in the common way for the language, rather than code that is ported from another language and therefore may not follow the common conventions.

Example Sentences

An idiomatic phrase that warns us against Pollyannaism is "don't count your chickens before they're hatched".

The inclusion or omission of definite articles follows idiomatic norms in each language and depends on context and intent.

A preprocessing (or text normalization) module is necessary as a front end, since TTS [text-to-speech] systems should in principle be able to read any text, including numbers, abbreviations, acronyms, and idiomatics in any format.

In English, the only idiomatic position for a pronoun as the object of a phrasal verb is before the particle, whereas a noun as object can fall either before or after the particle; thus only he picked them up but either he picked his tools up or he picked up his tools.

Word Forms

• idiomatick
• idiomatics

Synonyms for idiomatic

Depending on context, synonyms include idiom.

Antonyms for idiomatic

Common opposites include unidiomatic, nonidiomatic.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include vernacular, idiolectal, idiolectic, regular, indexical, idiocratic.

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