Meanings
adjectiveanidiomatical (comparative more anidiomatical, superlative most anidiomatical)
comparative more anidiomatical · superlative most anidiomatical
- archaicNot idiomatic.
Because you would not say two times; it is anidiomatical. JOHNSON: Anidiomatical! TOOKE: We want the word; take it from me. It is not so, when or three comes between. JOHNSON: I should rather say twice or thrice.
1828, Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC
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anidiomatical. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/anidiomatical
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