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[id-ee-uh-mat-ik]

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adjective

peculiar to or characteristic of a particular language or dialect: idiomatic French.

containing or using many idioms.

having a distinct style or character, especially in the arts: idiomatic writing; an idiomatic composer.

Also, id·i·o·mat·i·cal.

Origin:
1705–15; < Late Greek idiōmatikós, equivalent to idiōmat- (stem of idíōma) idiom + -ikos -ic

Related forms

id·i·o·mat·i·cal·ly, adverb

id·i·o·mat·i·cal·ness, id·i·o·ma·tic·i·ty

[id-ee-oh-muh-tis-i-tee] , noun

non·id·i·o·mat·ic, adjective

non·id·i·o·mat·i·cal, adjective

non·id·i·o·mat·i·cal·ly, adverb

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non·id·i·o·mat·i·cal·ness, noun

un·id·i·o·mat·ic, adjective

un·id·i·o·mat·i·cal·ly, adverb

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And a lot of composers simply don't write in an idiomatic fashion for the instrument.

The realism in this film, however, lies more in the performances and the idiomatic dialogue than in the depiction of battle.

But far harder to detect are cultural and idiomatic differences.

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idiom (ˈɪdɪəm)

—n
1.	a group of words whose meaning cannot be predicted from the meanings of the constituent words, as for example (It was raining) cats and dogs
2.	linguistic usage that is grammatical and natural to native speakers of a language
3.	the characteristic vocabulary or usage of a specific human group or subject
4.	the characteristic artistic style of an individual, school, period, etc

[C16: from Latin idiōma peculiarity of language, from Greek; see idio-]

idiomatic

—*adj*

idio'matical

—*adj*

idio'matically

—*adv*

idio'maticalness

—n

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