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idiomatic
Part of speech: AdjectivePeculiar to a language; given to, or marked by, the use of expressions characteristic of a language.
Part of speech: AdverbIdiomatically.
Usage examples "idiomatic":- I find on inquiry that this satire was actually put forth by some medieval rabbis, but that it is not idiomatic: it represents quite fairly " Jesus Nazarene," but the Hebrew wants an article quite as much as the English wants " the." - "A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II)", Augustus de Morgan.
- Mr. Birnie not only spoke French like a native, but all his habits, his gestures, his tricks of manner, were, French; not the French of good society, but more idiomatic, as it were, and popular. - "Night and Morning, Volume 3", Edward Bulwer Lytton.
- Madame Defarge was not likely to follow these idiomatic remarks in detail; but, she so far understood them as to perceive that she was set at naught. - "A Tale of Two Cities A Story of the French Revolution", Charles Dickens.