"idiotistic" meaning in English

See idiotistic in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Forms: more idiotistic [comparative], most idiotistic [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj}} idiotistic (comparative more idiotistic, superlative most idiotistic)
  1. (linguistics) Specific to one idiolect. Categories (topical): Linguistics
    Sense id: en-idiotistic-en-adj-LuKx1bWm Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
  2. (informal, nonstandard) Synonym of idiotic Tags: informal, nonstandard Synonyms: idiotic [synonym, synonym-of]
    Sense id: en-idiotistic-en-adj-9r5wfH3C Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 42 58 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 27 73 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 12 88
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          "ref": "1890, The Encyclopaedia Britannica:",
          "text": "He ridicules the ambition of German writers to be classic, as Lessing had ridiculed their eagerness to be French. “Let us,” he says, “be idiotistic writers, adapting ourselves to the peculiarities of our people and our language; whether we are classic posterity may find out.\"",
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          "ref": "1990, Hugo Bekker, William C. McDonald, Winder McConnell, Fide Et Amore:",
          "text": "This lexical archive of intra-dictionary citations will continue to be built as the fascicles of the dictionary appear. Its primary purpose is to counteract any lingering idiotistic characteristics that the original database for the dictionary may have had, and to make optimum use of citations which are complete and for which the addresses and time and place designations have been determined.",
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          "ref": "1990, Ulrich Goebel, Oskar Reichmann, Peter I. Barta, Historical lexicography of the German language - Volume 1, page 217:",
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          "ref": "1998 May 21, MacFS User, “DOUBLE HEADED EAGLE”, in soc.culture.greek (Usenet):",
          "text": "Further, you will not acieve your anything by posting idiotistic threads like these, apart from resorting to spam and swearing.",
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          "ref": "2005 December 7, Anraku, “Why is modern”, in talk.religion.buddhism (Usenet):",
          "text": "you idiotistic suburbanite nincompoop yuppie crackpot, why don't you just shut up?",
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          "ref": "2009, Erin Cooney, “What is an Idiot”, in Poetry and a Fifth Grade Cinderella: An Anthology From Nebraska, →ISBN:",
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          "ref": "2005 December 7, Anraku, “Why is modern”, in talk.religion.buddhism (Usenet):",
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