Idiomatic vs Axiomatic - What's the difference?
idiomatic | axiomatic |
Pertaining or conforming to the mode of expression characteristic of a language.
Resembling or characteristic of an idiom.
Using many idioms.
(music) Parts or pieces which are written both within the natural physical limitations of the instrument and human body and, less so or less often, the styles of playing used on specific instruments.
Evident without proof or argument.
* 1932 , , Brave New World :
* 1984 , , Welsh v. Wisconsin, United States Supreme Court (66 U.S. 740, 748)
Of or pertaining to an axiom.
(informal) Obvious.
As adjectives the difference between idiomatic and axiomatic
is that idiomatic is pertaining or conforming to the mode of expression characteristic of a language while axiomatic is axiomatic.idiomatic
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Alternative forms
* idiomatick (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)Antonyms
* unidiomaticReferences
* *axiomatic
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Adjective
(en adjective)- The students nodded, emphatically agreeing with a statement which upwards of sixty-two thousand repetitions in the dark had made them accept, not merely as true, but as axiomatic , self-evident, utterly indisputable.
- It is axiomatic that the "physical entry of the home is the chief evil against which the wording of the Fourth Amendment is directed."