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grammarless

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Etymology

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From grammar +‎ -less.

Adjective

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grammarless (not comparable)

  1. (linguistics, computing theory) Without grammar or a grammar.
    • 1947, Melville Jacobs, Bernhard Joseph Stern, Outline of anthropology:
      A few languages are either virtually grammarless, like Chinese, or have few supplementary morphemes grouped in form-classes, like English or French.
    • 2001, F A Grootjen, Relational Indexing Using a Grammarless Parser: