English words for 'A lack of standardization.'
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noun
- A language lacking standardization or a written form.
- Language unique to a particular group of people.
- (architecture) A style of architecture involving local building materials and styles; not imported.
- Indigenous spoken language, as distinct from a literary or liturgical language such as Ecclesiastical Latin.
- Everyday speech or dialect, including colloquialisms, as opposed to standard, literary, liturgical, or scientific idiom.
- The language of a people or a national language.
- the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language)
- a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves)
adj
- Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or by nature.
- (art) Connected to a collective memory; not imported.
- (architecture) Of or related to local building materials and styles; not imported.
- Of or pertaining to everyday language, as opposed to standard, literary, liturgical, or scientific idiom.
- (taxonomy) Not attempting to use the rules of a taxonomic code, especially, not using scientific Latin.
- being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language
noun
- a lack of sophistication
- a partiality for some particular place
- (linguistics) A word or locution characteristic of a region or district.
- (politics) Synonym of regionalism: belief in the superiority of one's regional government; the belief that most or nearly all political power should be decentralized to provincial governments.
- The quality of being provincial; having provincial tastes, mentality, manners.
adj
- Lacking variety from; indistinguishable.
- Not different or other; not another or others; not different as regards self; selfsame; identical.
- A reply of confirmation of identity.
- Similar, alike.
- Used to express the unity of an object or person which has various different descriptions or qualities.
- unchanged in character or nature
- same in identity
- closely similar or comparable in kind or quality or quantity or degree
- equal in amount or value
adv
intj
pron
adj
- Lacking sophistication.
- Not belonging to this world; celestial.
- Characterising people who are unconcerned with worldly matters; spiritually minded.
- Exceeding what is typically found in the world; exceptional, transcendent.
- not concerned with the temporal world or swayed by mundane considerations
- not wise in the ways of the world
adj
- lacking fine distinctions or detail
- conspicuously and tastelessly indecent
- visible to the naked eye (especially of rocks and anatomical features)
- conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible
- before any deductions
- without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers
- repellently fat
- (informal, Australia, Canada, US) Causing disgust.
- (of a product) Lacking refinement; not of high quality.
- (of behaviour) Highly or conspicuously offensive.
- (of a substance) Dense, heavy.
- Lacking refinement in behaviour or manner; offending a standard of morality.
- (of a person) Heavy in proportion to one's height; having a lot of excess flesh.
- (sciences, pathology) Seen without a microscope (usually for a tissue or an organ); at a large scale; not detailed.
- Of an amount: excluding any deductions; including all associated amounts.
- (now chiefly poetic) Difficult or impossible to see through.
noun
verb
adj
- lacking in rigor or strictness
- emptying easily or excessively
- pronounced with muscles of the tongue and jaw relatively relaxed (e.g., the vowel sound in ‘bet’)
- lacking in firmness or tension; not taut
- (linguistics) (of a vowel) Produced with relatively little constriction of the vocal tract.
- Lenient and allowing for deviation; not strict.
- Lacking care; neglectful, negligent.
- (mathematics) Describing an associative monoidal functor.
- Loose; not tight or taut.
noun
adj
- lacking in rigor or strictness
- not tense or taut
- flowing with little speed as e.g. at the turning of the tide
- (slang, Caribbean, Jamaica) Vulgar; sexually explicit, especially in dancehall music.
- Excess; surplus to requirements.
- Weak; not holding fast.
- Not active or busy, successful, or violent.
- Moderately warm.
- (linguistics) Lax.
- Moderate in speed.
- Lacking diligence or care; not earnest or eager.
- (normally said of a rope) Lax; not tense; not firmly extended.
noun
- dust consisting of a mixture of small coal fragments and coal dust and dirt that sifts out when coal is passed over a sieve
- a stretch of water without current or movement
- a noticeable deterioration in performance or quality
- a cord or rope or cable that is hanging loosely
- a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot
- the quality of being loose (not taut)
- (rail transport) A temporary speed restriction where track maintenance or engineering work is being carried out at a particular place.
- (mining) Small coal; coal dust.
- (uncountable, psychotherapy) Unconditional listening attention given by client to patient.
- In particular, a shallow dell or hollow; a dip in the surface of terrain, such as between hills.
- (countable) A low-lying marsh or a pool, especially a tidal or intermittent one which periodically fills and drains.
- (uncountable) The part of anything that hangs loose, having no strain upon it.
- (countable) A valley, or small, shallow dell; a sag or saddle in a ridge.
- A flat-bottomed, hollow zone within a sand-dune system that has developed over impervious strata, sometimes due to erosion or blow-out of the dune system; its flat base level is therefore close to or at the permanent water-table level, and therefore has rich, marshy flora, with Salix species (willows) as typical woody colonisers.
- Attributive form of slacks (“semi-formal trousers”).
- A dip in a surface.
verb
- become less in amount or intensity
- make less active or intense
- be inattentive to, or neglect
- avoid responsibilities and work, be idle
- become slow or slower
- cause to heat and crumble by treatment with water
- make less active or fast
- release tension on
- To refuse to work as hard as one is supposed to.
- (ambitransitive) To slacken.
- To lose cohesion or solidity by a chemical combination with water; to slake.
adv
adj
- nonstandard
- feeling physical discomfort or pain (‘tough’ is occasionally used colloquially for ‘bad’)
- not working properly
- (of foodstuffs) not in an edible or usable condition
- capable of harming
- reproduced fraudulently
- serious or severe
- not financially safe or secure
- not capable of being collected
- having undesirable or negative qualities
- characterized by wickedness or immorality
- feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone
- below average in quality or performance
- physically unsound or diseased
- False; counterfeit; illegitimate.
- (sometimes childish) Evil; wicked.
- Not appropriate, of manners etc.
- (often childish) Not behaving; behaving badly; misbehaving; mischievous or disobedient.
- Not worth it.
- Not suitable or fitting.
- (Internet slang, sarcastic) Used without a copula to mock people who oppose something without having any real understanding of it.
- (chiefly in "bad boy", "bad girl", and similar phrases) Attractive due to (one's) rebellious nature.
- (informal, of a draft/check) Not covered by funds on account.
- (semantic change, amelioration, contranymic) Good, superlative, excellent, cool.
- (of food) Spoiled, rotten, overripe.
- Harmful, especially unhealthy; liable to cause health problems.
- (US) Overly promiscuous, licentious.
- Bold, daring, and tough.
- (originally African-American Vernacular, of a woman) Very attractive; hot, sexy.
- (of a word, speech, or writing) Vulgar, obscene, or blasphemous.
- (of a need, want, or pain) Severe, urgent.
- Of poor physical appearance.
- Unskilled; of limited ability; not good.
- The injured or weak one of a pair of body parts, where the other one is healthy.
- (preceded by feel) Regretful, guilty, or ashamed.
- Of low quality.
- Tricky; stressful; unpleasant.
- Faulty; not functional.
- (of breath) Malodorous; foul.
- Inaccurate; incorrect
- (chiefly applied to a person's state of health) Sickly, unhealthy, unwell.
- Unfavorable; negative; not good.
noun
adv
intj
verb
adj
noun
adj
adj
- Not conforming to known principles, or established or accepted rules or standards.
- Not correctly deduced.
- Born to unmarried parents.
- Not in accordance with the law.
- (botany) Involving the fertilization of pistils by stamens not of their own length, in heterogonously dimorphic and trimorphic flowers.
- Not sanctioned by marriage.
- Not authorized by good usage; not genuine.
- of marriages and offspring; not recognized as lawful
- contrary to or forbidden by law
noun
verb
adj
- Not able to be measured by the same standards as another term in the context.
- (mathematics, of two integers) having no common integer divisor except 1.
- (mathematics, of two real numbers) having a ratio that is not expressible as a fraction of two integers.
- impossible to measure or compare in value or size or excellence
- not having a common factor
noun
noun
noun
- A language lacking standardization or a written form.
- Language unique to a particular group of people.
- (architecture) A style of architecture involving local building materials and styles; not imported.
- Indigenous spoken language, as distinct from a literary or liturgical language such as Ecclesiastical Latin.
- Everyday speech or dialect, including colloquialisms, as opposed to standard, literary, liturgical, or scientific idiom.
- The language of a people or a national language.
- the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language)
- a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves)
adj
- Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or by nature.
- (art) Connected to a collective memory; not imported.
- (architecture) Of or related to local building materials and styles; not imported.
- Of or pertaining to everyday language, as opposed to standard, literary, liturgical, or scientific idiom.
- (taxonomy) Not attempting to use the rules of a taxonomic code, especially, not using scientific Latin.
- being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language
noun
- a lack of sophistication
- a partiality for some particular place
- (linguistics) A word or locution characteristic of a region or district.
- (politics) Synonym of regionalism: belief in the superiority of one's regional government; the belief that most or nearly all political power should be decentralized to provincial governments.
- The quality of being provincial; having provincial tastes, mentality, manners.
noun
adj
- Lacking variety from; indistinguishable.
- Not different or other; not another or others; not different as regards self; selfsame; identical.
- A reply of confirmation of identity.
- Similar, alike.
- Used to express the unity of an object or person which has various different descriptions or qualities.
- unchanged in character or nature
- same in identity
- closely similar or comparable in kind or quality or quantity or degree
- equal in amount or value
adv
intj
pron
adj
- Lacking sophistication.
- Not belonging to this world; celestial.
- Characterising people who are unconcerned with worldly matters; spiritually minded.
- Exceeding what is typically found in the world; exceptional, transcendent.
- not concerned with the temporal world or swayed by mundane considerations
- not wise in the ways of the world
adj
- lacking fine distinctions or detail
- conspicuously and tastelessly indecent
- visible to the naked eye (especially of rocks and anatomical features)
- conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible
- before any deductions
- without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers
- repellently fat
- (informal, Australia, Canada, US) Causing disgust.
- (of a product) Lacking refinement; not of high quality.
- (of behaviour) Highly or conspicuously offensive.
- (of a substance) Dense, heavy.
- Lacking refinement in behaviour or manner; offending a standard of morality.
- (of a person) Heavy in proportion to one's height; having a lot of excess flesh.
- (sciences, pathology) Seen without a microscope (usually for a tissue or an organ); at a large scale; not detailed.
- Of an amount: excluding any deductions; including all associated amounts.
- (now chiefly poetic) Difficult or impossible to see through.
noun
verb
adj
- lacking in rigor or strictness
- emptying easily or excessively
- pronounced with muscles of the tongue and jaw relatively relaxed (e.g., the vowel sound in ‘bet’)
- lacking in firmness or tension; not taut
- (linguistics) (of a vowel) Produced with relatively little constriction of the vocal tract.
- Lenient and allowing for deviation; not strict.
- Lacking care; neglectful, negligent.
- (mathematics) Describing an associative monoidal functor.
- Loose; not tight or taut.
noun
adj
- lacking in rigor or strictness
- not tense or taut
- flowing with little speed as e.g. at the turning of the tide
- (slang, Caribbean, Jamaica) Vulgar; sexually explicit, especially in dancehall music.
- Excess; surplus to requirements.
- Weak; not holding fast.
- Not active or busy, successful, or violent.
- Moderately warm.
- (linguistics) Lax.
- Moderate in speed.
- Lacking diligence or care; not earnest or eager.
- (normally said of a rope) Lax; not tense; not firmly extended.
noun
- dust consisting of a mixture of small coal fragments and coal dust and dirt that sifts out when coal is passed over a sieve
- a stretch of water without current or movement
- a noticeable deterioration in performance or quality
- a cord or rope or cable that is hanging loosely
- a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot
- the quality of being loose (not taut)
- (rail transport) A temporary speed restriction where track maintenance or engineering work is being carried out at a particular place.
- (mining) Small coal; coal dust.
- (uncountable, psychotherapy) Unconditional listening attention given by client to patient.
- In particular, a shallow dell or hollow; a dip in the surface of terrain, such as between hills.
- (countable) A low-lying marsh or a pool, especially a tidal or intermittent one which periodically fills and drains.
- (uncountable) The part of anything that hangs loose, having no strain upon it.
- (countable) A valley, or small, shallow dell; a sag or saddle in a ridge.
- A flat-bottomed, hollow zone within a sand-dune system that has developed over impervious strata, sometimes due to erosion or blow-out of the dune system; its flat base level is therefore close to or at the permanent water-table level, and therefore has rich, marshy flora, with Salix species (willows) as typical woody colonisers.
- Attributive form of slacks (“semi-formal trousers”).
- A dip in a surface.
verb
- become less in amount or intensity
- make less active or intense
- be inattentive to, or neglect
- avoid responsibilities and work, be idle
- become slow or slower
- cause to heat and crumble by treatment with water
- make less active or fast
- release tension on
- To refuse to work as hard as one is supposed to.
- (ambitransitive) To slacken.
- To lose cohesion or solidity by a chemical combination with water; to slake.
adv
adj
- nonstandard
- feeling physical discomfort or pain (‘tough’ is occasionally used colloquially for ‘bad’)
- not working properly
- (of foodstuffs) not in an edible or usable condition
- capable of harming
- reproduced fraudulently
- serious or severe
- not financially safe or secure
- not capable of being collected
- having undesirable or negative qualities
- characterized by wickedness or immorality
- feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone
- below average in quality or performance
- physically unsound or diseased
- False; counterfeit; illegitimate.
- (sometimes childish) Evil; wicked.
- Not appropriate, of manners etc.
- (often childish) Not behaving; behaving badly; misbehaving; mischievous or disobedient.
- Not worth it.
- Not suitable or fitting.
- (Internet slang, sarcastic) Used without a copula to mock people who oppose something without having any real understanding of it.
- (chiefly in "bad boy", "bad girl", and similar phrases) Attractive due to (one's) rebellious nature.
- (informal, of a draft/check) Not covered by funds on account.
- (semantic change, amelioration, contranymic) Good, superlative, excellent, cool.
- (of food) Spoiled, rotten, overripe.
- Harmful, especially unhealthy; liable to cause health problems.
- (US) Overly promiscuous, licentious.
- Bold, daring, and tough.
- (originally African-American Vernacular, of a woman) Very attractive; hot, sexy.
- (of a word, speech, or writing) Vulgar, obscene, or blasphemous.
- (of a need, want, or pain) Severe, urgent.
- Of poor physical appearance.
- Unskilled; of limited ability; not good.
- The injured or weak one of a pair of body parts, where the other one is healthy.
- (preceded by feel) Regretful, guilty, or ashamed.
- Of low quality.
- Tricky; stressful; unpleasant.
- Faulty; not functional.
- (of breath) Malodorous; foul.
- Inaccurate; incorrect
- (chiefly applied to a person's state of health) Sickly, unhealthy, unwell.
- Unfavorable; negative; not good.
noun
adv
intj
verb
adj
noun
adj
adj
- Not conforming to known principles, or established or accepted rules or standards.
- Not correctly deduced.
- Born to unmarried parents.
- Not in accordance with the law.
- (botany) Involving the fertilization of pistils by stamens not of their own length, in heterogonously dimorphic and trimorphic flowers.
- Not sanctioned by marriage.
- Not authorized by good usage; not genuine.
- of marriages and offspring; not recognized as lawful
- contrary to or forbidden by law
noun
verb
adj
- Not able to be measured by the same standards as another term in the context.
- (mathematics, of two integers) having no common integer divisor except 1.
- (mathematics, of two real numbers) having a ratio that is not expressible as a fraction of two integers.
- impossible to measure or compare in value or size or excellence
- not having a common factor