Unstandard
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Not standard; not at standard, or at a level other than that which is considered standard
"Similarly, to take twenty-five years of free-form, cross-cutting social, political, economic, and historical writing growing out of work at a single, unstandard, American institution and isolate it as an "era" in such writing — a stage, a phase, a line of thought — is to pursue an agenda, take a position, state a case."
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More examples"Similarly, to take twenty-five years of free-form, cross-cutting social, political, economic, and historical writing growing out of work at a single, unstandard, American institution and isolate it as an "era" in such writing — a stage, a phase, a line of thought — is to pursue an agenda, take a position, state a case."
Etymology
From un- + standard.