grammarless en · ADJ
Pronunciation
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- /ˈɡɹæm.əɹ.ləs/
Etymology
From grammar + -less.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Without grammar or a grammar.
A few languages are either virtually grammarless, like Chinese, or have few supplementary morphemes grouped in form-classes, like English or French.
1947, Melville Jacobs, Bernhard Joseph Stern, Outline of anthropology: