IDIOMATIC Synonyms: 43 Similar and Opposite Words

idiomatic

adjective

ˌi-dē-ə-ˈma-tik

Definition of idiomatic

as in personal

of, relating to, or belonging to a single person the new teacher's idiomatic approach to dealing with special-needs students is already showing signs of success

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Recent Examples of idiomatic This type of idiomatic communication enables partners to talk in ways that outsiders are hardly able to understand. — Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2026 The translations look good – fluent, idiomatic, convincing. — Wyles Daniel, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026 What mattered was the freshness of the programming and the spark of the performances—above all, the sly, idiomatic singing of the soprano Melissa Wimbish. — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 19 Mar. 2026 The worst examples of Google's idiomatic AI guesswork are ones where the LLM slips past plausible interpretations and into sheer hallucination of completely fictional sources. — ArsTechnica, 29 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for idiomatic

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Adjective

Bryan West Madison Square Garden does hold personal significance for Swift.

— Bryan West, USA Today, 4 July 2026
This podcast got me a boyfriend ever since Travis decided to use it as his personal dating app about two years ago.

— Virginia Chamlee, PEOPLE, 3 July 2026

Definition of personal

Adjective

In soccer, the line between a yellow and a red card can be subjective, depending on the referee working the game that day and his or her interpretation of the play.

— Ashley Mowreader, NBC news, 3 July 2026
The Dolphins assuredly would rank in the bottom third of the league in the subjective category of talent.

— Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 2 July 2026

Definition of subjective

Adjective

Face Reality now has more than 10,000 experts in the market helping clients with personalized care.

— Fairchild Studio, Footwear News, 6 July 2026
Shannon points to European football coach José Mourinho, who partnered with Snickers on an interactive campaign in which his AI avatar gives advice to fans in personalized videos.

— Joy Press, Vanity Fair, 6 July 2026

Definition of personalized

Adjective

Gabriella paid off most of his entourage to leave him and the band alone and is now basically his own private Joe Jackson, pressuring him to record nonstop.

— Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 6 July 2026
The Castro family has been linked, through GAESA chiefly, to a lucrative world of hotels, banks, retail monopolies, foreign-currency businesses, foreign private compounds and offshore accounts.

— Romina Ruiz-Goiriena, USA Today, 6 July 2026

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