# unmeet
## English
### Etymology 1

From Middle English unmete, vnmete, unimete, from Old English unġemǣte, unmǣte (“immense, enormous; unsuitable”), equivalent to un- +‎ meet (“fit, right”).

#### Adjective

unmeet (comparative more unmeet, superlative most unmeet)
* (archaic) Not meet or proper.
** c. 1587–1588, R[ichard] I[ones], “To the Gentlemen Readers [… ]”, in Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN:I haue (purpoſelie) omitted and left out ſome fond & friuolous Ieſtures, digreſſing (and in my poore opinion) farre vnmeete for the matter […] .
** 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:[…] O, my father! / Prove you that any man with me convers'd / At hours unmeet, or that I yesternight / Maintain'd the change of words with any creature, / Refuse me, hate me, torture me to death.
** 1851, Grace Aguilar, The Vale of Cedars‎:Ferdinand himself gazed on her a moment astonished; then with animated courtesy hastily raised her, and playfully chid the movement as unmeet from a hostess to her guests.
** 1867, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “May-Day”, in May-Day and Other Pieces, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, pages 14–15:Where shall we keep the holiday, / And duly greet the entering May? / Too strait and low our cottage doors, / And all unmeet our carpet floors; […]
** 1900, Ernest Dowson, Amor Umbratilis‎:I cast my flowers away, Blossoms unmeet for you!
** 1915, James Branch Cabell, The Rivet in Grandfather’s Neck‎:There were many hideous histories the colonel could have told you of, unmeet to be set down, and he was familiar with this talk of pelvic anomalies which were congenital.

##### Derived terms

* unmeetly
* unmeetness

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

From un- +‎ meet.

#### Verb

unmeet (third-person singular simple present unmeets, present participle unmeeting, simple past and past participle unmet)
* (transitive) To undo the process of meeting.
** 2008, Paula Chase, “Good Boys vs. Bad Boys”, in Who You Wit’? (A Del Rio Bay Novel), New York, N.Y.: Dafina Books, →ISBN:Tell him […] that I wish I could unmeet him because he’s on my brain so much it makes me feel crazy.
** 2008, Jeri Smith-Ready, “I Forgot to Remember to Forget”, in Wicked Game, New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books, →ISBN:But if I could unmeet him somehow, make all this unhappen, I would.
** 2010, Seth King, chapter 10, in Honesty, [North Charleston, S.C.]: [CreateSpace], →ISBN, page 154:I wish I could unmeet you, unread you, unknow you, unarrange my life around you.
** 2013 July 29, Alexandra Mikah, “Nice To Un-Meet You”, in Lies and Other Minor Tragedies: Poems, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, published 2015, →ISBN:I wish I could unmeet you / Just so we can meet again.
** 2014, Kristina Lloyd, “Part 5”, in Undone, London: Black Lace, Ebury Publishing, →ISBN, page 276:I wish I could roll back time so I could unmeet him, unsleep with him, unknow him, unlove him.
** 2017, Kayde Langer, Good Morning Sunshine, [Morrisville, N.C.]: [Lulu.com], →ISBN, page 137:I wish I could unmeet people and maybe I wouldn’t be the way I am.
** 2018, Jamie McGuire, From Here to You‎, New York, N.Y.: Forever, Grand Central Publishing, published 2019, →ISBN:I would have given all of this up if I could have gone back and done things different. If I could unmeet Shawn, be someone different, and start over.
** 2021, Madiha Saleem, Insha SIddiqui, “I Wish I Could Unmeet You”, in Beaaz-E-Jazbaat, Rourkela, Odisha: Unvoiced Heart, →ISBN, page 15:I wish you were never part of my lesson. I wish I could unmeet you.