Words similar to idiomatic
Example sentences for: idiomatic
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The result may not always be idiomatic, but it will probably get the point across.
The general production of the book is poor: the paper has too much “see-through,” causing the type on the back of a page to interfere with the legibility; the type is too gray; the definitions are run into one another, with semicolons in place of definition numbers, making it difficult to distinguish senses and requiring one to read through a long entry before coming to the sense sought; it is almost impossible to discover where a new part of speech begins; subentries of idiomatic phrases and phrasal verbs are given the same prominence as headwords, making them easy to find but detracting from the headword treatment; and the substandard typography has created many loose lines which poor proofreading has failed to catch.
It is well known that the origins of many words still elude the most determined researchers in etymology, but, taken as a whole, I should imagine that the proportion of idiomatic expressions without confirmed etymologies may be higher than that of words whose provenance has not been established.
The two objections I see with this would-be super-short supersentence are, first, the highly elliptical and not terribly idiomatic omission of any overt identification of the clausal status of the word painful , and second, the analysis of the thoroughly idiomatic three-word phrase, you're disgusted by as an adjective clause containing a participial phrase and a rather elliptical prepositional phrase.
Loosely translated, what would that be in idiomatic English?
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