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Substandard

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Adjective

1. deficient, inferior, substandard

falling short of some prescribed norm

Example Sentences:
'substandard housing'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Substandard

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adjective
1. 
below an established or required standard
2.  another word for nonstandard

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Substandard

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adjective
below standard
; specif.,
a. 
below a standard established as by law
b.  Linguistics
nonstandard
a usually pejorative designation for forms of a language that differ from the standard dialect, and a term not widely used by linguists

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Substandard

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adj.
1. Failing to meet a standard; below standard.
2. Linguistics
a. Of, relating to, or indicating a pattern of linguistic usage that does not conform to that of the prestige group in a speech community or to that of the standard language.
b. Not in accord with notions of good English; nonstandard. See Usage Note at nonstandard.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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