cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
unclerical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unclerical
form: most unclerical
Etymology: From un- + clerical.
Senses: examples: text: The solitary muezzin, who cried the mughreb at the close of the fast, and lighted the lamps on his minaret, went through with his work in most unclerical haste, now that there was no one to notice him.
ref: 1863, Bayard Taylor, The Lands of the Saracen:
text: A more remorseless foe, however, than Foote appeared in the person of Charles Churchill, the wild and unclerical son of a poor curate of Westminster.
ref: 1890, Grace & Philip Wharton, The Wits and Beaux of Society:
text: She drew from her gloved palm her offering and extended it towards Brother Weldon, who with unclerical haste and noise took the office.
ref: 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 162:
text: As they came to the churchyard, the grave-digger was just busy at a grave, and it was quiet about him; no sheep, no goat came and desecrated man's last resting-place; for in this village the churchyard was no pasture for unclerical animals.
ref: 1914, Various, The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. VIII:
glosses: Not clerical.
uncramped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncramped
form: most uncramped
Etymology: From un- + cramped.
Senses: examples: text: So she looked at her own pretty feet,--pretty and slender, and arched, rosy, and fair, and uncramped by the pressure of leather,--and resigned her day-dream with a brave heart, as she put up her broom and went out to weed, and hoe, and trim, and prune the garden that had been for once neglected the night before.
ref: 1896, Ouida, Bebee:
text: As they trotted down the slope, Nash looked to his equipment, handled his revolver, felt the strands of the lariat, and resting only his toes in the stirrups, eased all his muscles to make sure that they were uncramped from the long journey.
ref: 1919, Max Brand, Trailin'!:
glosses: Not cramped.
unannealed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + annealed.
Senses: examples: text: A Prince-Rupert's-drop, which is a tear of unannealed glass, lasts indefinitely, if you keep it from meddling hands; but break its tail off, and it explodes and resolves itself into powder.
ref: 1857, Various, The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 1, Issue 2, December, 1857:
text: The experiment may be varied in this way: Placing in front of the polarizer a plate of unannealed glass, you have a series of beautifully coloured rings, intersected by a black cross.
ref: 1906, John Tyndall, Six Lectures on Light:
glosses: Not annealed.
annealable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more annealable
form: most annealable
Etymology: From anneal + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being annealed.
Derived terms: nonannealable
undecent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undecent
form: most undecent
Etymology: From un- + decent.
Senses: examples: text: Conversation is immoral, where the discourse is undecent, immodest, scandalous, slanderous, and abusive.
ref: 1801, Daniel Defoe, The Life and Most Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of:
text: Such usage is very undecent from one Gentleman to another, and does not at all contribute to the discovery of Truth, which ought to be the great End in all disputes of the Learned.
ref: 1903, Edited by Professor Arber and Thomas Seccombe, An English Garner:
glosses: Not decent; indecent.
uninforming
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uninforming
form: most uninforming
Etymology: From un- + informing.
Senses: examples: text: She looked at him closely, with a quick suspicion, but found his profile uninforming; at least of anything needful at the moment.
ref: 1903, Harry Leon Wilson, The Lions of the Lord:
text: Lady Geoghegan plied hers with questions, and received a series of quite uninforming answers.
ref: 1906, George A. Birmingham, Hyacinth:
text: The book was profuse in diagrams, and each diagram was profuse in letters of the alphabet, but these he found uninforming.
ref: 1921, Harry Leon Wilson, The Wrong Twin:
glosses: Failing to yield information; uninformative.
unmended
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + mended.
Senses: examples: text: Tom, Dick, and Harry's unmended hose persisted in dancing a spectral jig before her mental eye, mother's querulous complaints spoilt the song she hummed to cheer herself, and little May's wistful face put the goddess of beauty entirely out of countenance.
ref: 1882, Louisa M. Alcott, Kitty's Class Day And Other Stories:
text: Sharp bristles are anything but an improvement to my cast of features, and there was an unmended tear at the knee of my knickerbockers that showed conspicuously as I squatted in my litter; my right stocking, too, persisted in getting about my ankle.
ref: 1901, H. G. Wells, The First Men In The Moon:
glosses: Not mended.
unmetaphorical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unmetaphorical
form: most unmetaphorical
Etymology: From un- + metaphorical.
Senses: examples: text: An unmetaphorical style you shall in vain seek for: is not your very Attention a Stretching-to?
ref: 1831, Thomas Carlyle, “Prospective”, in Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh. […], London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, 1st book, page 49:
text: A Little Night Music crosses Ingmar Bergman's randy Smiles of a Summer Night with Stephen Sondheim's typically chilly emotionalism; the result is a spectrum of romantic pathologies—including several shades of metaphorical incest and several more entirely unmetaphorical adulteries—played out against a background of summer vacation sensuality.
ref: 1994 July 8, Bill Wyman, “Calendar”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Not metaphorical.
unhurrying
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unhurrying
form: most unhurrying
Etymology: From un- + hurrying.
Senses: examples: text: The two comfortable ladies who sit near the door at the desk, and the little show-table of the finest fruit seem to me never to have changed, and there is still the same quiet-footed, unhurrying service which impressed me when first I made the acquaintance of the restaurant.
ref: 1903, Algernon Bastard, The Gourmet's Guide to Europe:
text: The story is epic in its magnitude, in its calm, steady progress and unhurrying rhythm, in its vast and intimate humanity.
ref: 1917, Knut Hamsun, Growth of the Soil:
glosses: Not hurrying.
unimitable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unimitable
form: most unimitable
Etymology: From un- + imitable.
Senses: examples: text: But Falstaff, unimitated, unimitable Falstaff, how shall I describe thee! thou compound of sense and vice; of sense which may be admired, but not esteemed; of vice which may be despised, but hardly detested.
ref: 1825, Samuel Johnson, The Works of Samuel Johnson in Nine Volumes:
text: […]I have seen a man the most severe of Johnson's Sect, sit with his Hat remov'd less than a hair's breadth from one sullen posture for almost three hours at The Alchymist; who at that excellent Play of Harry the Fourth (which yet I hope is far enough from Farce) hath very hardly kept his Doublet whole; but affectation hath always had a greater share both in the action and discourse of men than truth and judgement have; and for our Modern ones, except our most unimitable Laureat, I dare to say I know of none that write at such a formidable rate, but that a woman may well hope to reach their greatest heights.
ref: 1915, Aphra Behn, The Works of Aphra Behn, Vol. I (of 6):
glosses: That cannot be imitated.
unlearnedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unlearnedly
form: most unlearnedly
Etymology: From unlearned + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: And those Affectators of Variety seem equally ridiculous, who, when they have spoken barbarously once, repeat the same Thing much more barbarously; and then over and over again much more unlearnedly.
ref: 1878, N. Bailey., Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I.:
text: Better far for such victims had they, instead of aspiring to the vanities of a "classical education," sat, like Keats, unlearnedly at the feet of quaint Chapman, or Dryden, or even of Mr. Pope.
ref: 1892, Charles Lamb, The Best Letters of Charles Lamb:
glosses: In an unlearned manner.
unharming
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unharming
form: most unharming
Etymology: From un- + harming.
Senses: examples: text: From Edgar Linton, as we have seen, Heathcliff's blows fell aside unharming, as the executioner's strokes from a legendary martyr.
ref: 1883, A. Mary F. (Agnes Mary Frances) Robinson, Emily Brontë:
text: The snow struck the bottle, but the unharming bullet was buried half an inch to the left.
ref: 1900, Owen Wister, The Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories:
glosses: Doing no harm.
unhasting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unhasting
form: most unhasting
Etymology: From un- + hasting.
Senses: examples: text: He enjoyed to the full his ability to swing gorgeous involved sentences, phrase after phrase, down the long arc of rhetoric, without a pause, without a quiver, until they rushed unhasting up the other slope to end in beautiful words, polysyllabic, but with just the right number of syllables.
ref: 1901, Stewart Edward White, The Claim Jumpers:
text: A policeman with his arms hidden under his cloak marched unhasting downwards from the direction of the Bank.
ref: 1911, Arnold Bennett, Hilda Lessways:
glosses: Without haste.
ungrudgingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more ungrudgingly
form: most ungrudgingly
Etymology: From ungrudging + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: It is pleasant to acknowledge an obligation when the favour has been bestowed courteously and ungrudgingly.
ref: 1882-1889, Various, A Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. III:
text: Hence they determined to turn first in the direction of these doubtful parties, hoping that since they were far stronger in point of weapons and were willing to bestow favors ungrudgingly they might soon either persuade or force them to join.
ref: 1906, Cassius Dio, Dio's Rome, Vol. III:
glosses: Without a grudge.
unhoped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + hoped.
Senses: examples: text: The Prince of peace would like himself confer / A gift unhoped, without the price of war
ref: 1660, [John] Dryden, Astraea Redux:
text: With these words he gave him a letter directed, as he had said, but not sealed, which Horatio, after he had manifested the sense he had of so unhoped an obligation, reminded him of.
ref: 1744, Eliza Fowler Haywood, The Fortunate Foundlings:
text: Men on cycles, lean-faced, unkempt, scorched along every country lane, shouting of unhoped deliverance, shouting to gaunt, staring figures of despair.
ref: 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 289:
glosses: Not hoped for; unexpected.
unhandsomely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unhandsomely
form: most unhandsomely
Etymology: From unhandsome + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: McClellan at once wrote that he should continue to "work just as cheerfully as before;" but he felt that the removal was very unhandsomely made just as he was entering upon active operations.
ref: 1899, John T. Morse, Abraham Lincoln, Vol. I.:
text: And Rudolph Musgrave, knowing that according to his lights he had behaved not unhandsomely, was the merest trifle patronizing and rather like a person speaking from a superior plane in his future dealings with Patricia.
ref: 1915, James Branch Cabell, The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck:
glosses: In an unhandsome manner.
unmixedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unmixedly
form: most unmixedly
Etymology: From unmixed + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: But there are, nevertheless, plenty of passages, both in Tristram Shandy and the Sentimental Journey, where the intention is wholly and unmixedly pathetic--where the smile is not for a moment meant to compete with the tear--which are, nevertheless, it must be owned, complete failures, and failures traceable with much certainty, or so it seems to me, to the artistic error above-mentioned.
ref: 1882, H.D. Traill, Sterne:
text: Nor was ever any great writer's influence upon his fellows more utterly and unmixedly an influence for good.
ref: 1908, Algernon Charles Swinburne, The Age of Shakespeare:
glosses: In a way that is not mixed or adulterated; wholly, entirely.
unmirthful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unmirthful
form: most unmirthful
Etymology: From un- + mirthful.
Senses: examples: text: Through the chinks of my fingers, dolorously spread over my face, I see that he has sat down on the other side of the table, just opposite me, and that he is smiling in the same unmirthful, gently sarcastic way, as he was when he left me.
ref: 1874, Rhoda Broughton, Nancy:
text: As she gazed, an unmirthful smile spread over her features, like sunshine that grows melancholy in some desolate spot.
ref: 1903, Philip P. Wells, Bible Stories and Religious Classics:
synonyms: word: bleak
word: mirthless
word: cheerless
word: comfortless
word: bleak
word: dark
word: depressing
word: desolate
word: dire
word: disconsolate
word: dismal
word: doleful
word: dolesome
word: drear
word: drearisome
word: dreary
word: dreich
word: forlorn
word: gayless
word: gray
word: gloomsome
word: gloomy
word: grim
word: joyless
word: lack-laughter
word: lugubrious
word: melancholy
word: mirthless
word: miserable
word: no joke
word: saturnine
word: solemn
word: somber
word: sombre
word: spiritless
word: sullen
word: sunless
word: uncheerful
word: uncheery
word: unhappy
word: unmerry
word: wintry
word: woeful
word: funny as a dose of the clap
word: jokeless
word: humorless
word: irrisible
word: laughless
word: mirthless
word: nonhumorous
word: unhilarious
word: unhumorous
word: unhysterical
word: unjocose
word: unjocular
word: unlaughable
word: unmirthful
glosses: Not mirthful.
unminded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unminded
form: most unminded
Etymology: From un- + minded.
Senses: examples: text: Bathsheba had too much sense to mind seriously what her servitors said about her; but too much womanly redundance of speech to leave alone what was said till it died the natural death of unminded things.
ref: 1874, Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], →OCLC:
text: Whatever, unknown or unminded by others, wanders by night through the labyrinth of the heart"--that he must transmit to the hearer; he must allow the listener to share with him the gift of "being able to give expression to his suffering."
ref: 1913, Charles Wharton Stork, The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries,:
glosses: To which no attention is paid; ignored, unheeded.
examples: text: […] that he had not elected English literature, that he had already wasted too much brain tissue on the question, and that he was unminded to waste any more!
ref: 1958, Robert Kimball Richardson, Helen Louisa Drew Richardson, Robert Kimball Richardson, 1876-1952, page 88:
glosses: Not wanting to do something; uninclined.
ungraced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + graced.
Senses: examples: text: A cabin with thee in these wilds were better than a palace ungraced by thy presence.
ref: 1857, John Turvill Adams, The Knight of the Golden Melice:
text: The interview, ungraced by the presence of France's Queen, would, said Henry, be robbed of most of its charm; and he gave Charles to understand that, unless he reached England by the middle of May, his visit would have to be cancelled.
ref: 1919, A. F. Pollard, Henry VIII.:
glosses: Not graced (by or with something).
unhopeful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unhopeful
form: most unhopeful
Etymology: From Middle English unhopful, unhopfulle, equivalent to un- + hopeful.
Senses: examples: text: As a young man, his was a severe and unhopeful mind, and the tendency to despond was increased by circumstances.
ref: 1897, R.W. Church, Occasional Papers:
text: His pessimistic and unhopeful temperament was doubtless due to inherent and hereditary bodily weakness, and to the lack of muscular cultivation in his youth, which might have modified inherent tendencies.
ref: 1904, Various, Memories of Jane Cunningham Croly, "Jenny June":
text: [W]hile policies matter, the tougher challenge is to answer the visceral appeal of the populists and to reengage with voters who feel economically stuck, unhopeful about their future, and unwilling to trust the same old politicians to improve things.
ref: 2025 July 24, Ned Temko, “In Japan, too, voters want their country to be ‘great again’”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
glosses: Not hopeful.
unhopeful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unhopefuls
Etymology: From Middle English unhopful, unhopfulle, equivalent to un- + hopeful.
Senses: glosses: Somebody who is unlikely to achieve success or victory.
unguessed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + guessed.
Senses: examples: text: And what her thoughts are nobody knows, She sits with her secret hid, unguessed, With her strange eyes bent on the distant west, So the slow years come, and the slow year goes, O'er the Lady Cecile.
ref: 1887, Marietta Holley, Poems:
text: She spoke in wonder, for Patricia had glimpsed an unguessed Rudolph Musgrave.
ref: 1915, James Branch Cabell, The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck:
glosses: Not guessed.
unimitated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unimitated
form: most unimitated
Etymology: From un- + imitated.
Senses: examples: text: But Falstaff, unimitated, unimitable Falstaff, how shall I describe thee! thou compound of sense and vice; of sense which may be admired, but not esteemed; of vice which may be despised, but hardly detested.
ref: 1825, Samuel Johnson, The Works of Samuel Johnson in Nine Volumes:
text: The eloquence was plainly "in the man, in the subject, and in the occasion," but most emphatically was it in the MAN. Webster's extreme solicitude to make his style thoroughly Websterian--a style unimitated because it is in itself inimitable--is observable in the care he took in revising all his speeches and addresses which were published under his own authority.
ref: 1923, Daniel Webster, The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster:
glosses: Not imitated.
Websterian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Websterian
form: most Websterian
Etymology: From Webster + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: For if "conversationalist" and "experimentalize" are legitimate words, there is no Websterian reason for refusing them such legitimate descendants as Conversationalistic, Conversationalistically, Conversationalisticability[.]
ref: 1870, Edward S. Gould, Good English: Or, Popular Errors in Language, page 18:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Noah Webster (1758-1843), American lexicographer and spelling reformer.
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Daniel Webster (1878-1852), American statesman and nationalist.
Related terms: Websterism
unjudicial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unjudicial
form: most unjudicial
Etymology: From un- + judicial.
Senses: examples: text: He began by the very unjudicial act of pledging himself, to himself, that nothing should interfere with this new, this true love.
ref: 1886, Frank Richard Stockton, The Late Mrs. Null:
text: The proceedings of that fine old institution, the coroner's court, are apt to have their dignity impaired by the somewhat unjudicial surroundings amidst which they are conducted.
ref: 1911, R. Austin Freeman, The Vanishing Man:
synonyms: nonjudicial
coordinate_terms: extrajudicial
glosses: Not judicial.
unmanfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unmanfully
form: most unmanfully
Etymology: From unmanful + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: But in the name of justice, law, and common sense, do not insiduously and unmanfully continue a sentence for one and a former offense, as a punishment for another and a later one, and that, too, without the due forms of trial.
ref: 1856, Albert G. Mackey, The Principles of Masonic Law:
text: So Sara Lee's room had a different occupant for a time, a thin and fine-worn young Belgian, who yielded to Sara Lee when Jean gave up in despair, and who proceeded, most unmanfully, to faint as soon as he was between the blankets.
ref: 1918, Mary Roberts Rinehart, The Amazing Interlude:
glosses: In an unmanful manner.
unmannerliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unmannerly + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Half-scornful amusement, perhaps, and the contempt of the man who has done what man may do for the yoke-fellow who habitually made claim to supernatural prowess; in addition to the scholar's condemnation of blatant ignorance, the courtier's dislike of unmannerliness, the soldier's scorn of unproved deeds, athwart all the philosophic smile!
ref: 1904, Mary Johnston, Sir Mortimer:
text: That's what I say!" Mr. Vetch did his best to soothe his angry spouse; I fear he suffered a good deal at times from her unmannerliness, though to be sure she was an excellent housewife and had a heart of gold.
ref: 1909, Herbert Strang, Humphrey Bold:
glosses: The quality of being unmannerly; rudeness.
unmanufactured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + manufactured.
Senses: examples: text: Copper in pig, or unmanufactured, is free of duty, on entry into the United States; its price in the New York market is, at this time (very low), sixteen cents per pound.
ref: 1851, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, Personal Memoirs Of A Residence Of Thirty Years With The Indian Tribes On The American Frontiers:
text: Houses, shops, and buildings of all kinds, produce manufactured and unmanufactured, bridges, ships, railway stations and stock of enormous value will have been destroyed.
ref: 1915, The War and Democracy:
glosses: Not manufactured.
unillustrious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unillustrious
form: most unillustrious
Etymology: From un- + illustrious.
Senses: examples: text: The "Metropolitans" followed the example of many unillustrious predecessors, though it must, in justice, be added, that they would have been shocked to hear anyone impute to them a want of originality in their curious methods.
ref: 1892, Various, Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 103, Sep. 24, 1892:
text: One has known actors, far from unillustrious, who staked their whole performance on some such learned triviality or some trifling novelty of business, when, for example, in Hamlet's scene with his mother, the prince comes to: Look here upon this picture, and on this.
ref: 1915, Richard Le Gallienne, Vanishing Roads and Other Essays:
glosses: Not illustrious.
uninked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + inked.
Senses: examples: text: Girls are always trying to find something which they can make to delight their papas, and a gay little pen-wiper with fresh uninked leaves rarely comes amiss to a man who likes an orderly writing-table.
ref: 1878, Various, St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, Nov 1877-Nov 1878:
text: Of the colour of the mahogany bank furniture was Uncle Bushrod--thus dark was he externally; white as the uninked pages of the bank ledgers was his soul.
ref: 1919, O. Henry, Roads of Destiny:
glosses: Not inked.
unintelligence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unintelligences
Etymology: From un- + intelligence.
Senses: examples: text: The Intelligence Office proved to be as much misnamed as those institutions usually are, and varying degrees of unintelligence were shown in the candidates offered for the position of cook at Boxley Hall; though, if the applicants seemed unsatisfactory to Patty, in many cases she was no less so to them.
ref: 1904, Carolyn Wells, “Servants”, in Patty at Home, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, →OCLC, pages 69–70:
text: There is a way in which Britain is certain to have war and its horrors and calamities; it is this--by persisting in her present course of unpreparedness, her apathy, unintelligence, and blindness, and in her disregard of the warnings of the most ordinary political insight, as well as of the example of history.
ref: 1912, Norman Angell, Peace Theories and the Balkan War:
glosses: Lack of intelligence.
Derived terms: artificial unintelligence
Related terms: unintelligent
unjoyous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unjoyous
form: most unjoyous
Etymology: From un- + joyous.
Senses: examples: text: It is from the animal joy of mechanics or peasants in their cessations from labor, or from their celebration of festivals, that the artist will select his matter of composition; not from any circumstances of unjoyous poverty or loathsome distress.
ref: 1772, Giovanni-Andrea Gallini, A Treatise on the Art of Dancing:
text: On emerging from the Old Manse, it was chiefly this strange, indolent, unjoyous attachment for my native town, that brought me to fill a place in Uncle Sam's brick edifice, when I might as well, or better, have gone somewhere else.
ref: 1878, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter:
text: In a few moments we were whirling along the straight, white road between the interminable black vineyards, and past the dilapidated homesteads of the vine-folk and wayside cafes that are scattered about this unjoyous corner of France.
ref: 1912, William J. Locke, The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol:
glosses: Not joyous.
underexercise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From under- + exercise.
Senses: glosses: Insufficient exercise.
underexercise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underexercises
form: underexercising
form: underexercised
form: underexercised
Etymology: From under- + exercise.
Senses: examples: text: Overeating and underexercising will lead to obesity.
glosses: To take too little exercise.
underexercises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of underexercise
underexercising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underexercise
unled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + led.
Senses: examples: text: But the child's mind, unled, but not misled, had pondered on these things, and her heart had grown to love them; and perhaps no student of Spanish architecture, no antiquary of Moyen-age relics, loved St. Gudule and the Broodhuis as little ignorant Bebee did.
ref: 1896, Ouida, Bebee:
text: Thus in the crisis of the Nation's fate we are ungoverned and unled, and to all appearance we are content to be so, and the leader-writers trained in the tradition of respectable formalism interpret the Nation's apathy as fortitude.
ref: 1900, Spenser Wilkinson, Lessons of the War:
glosses: Not led; without guidance or leadership.
ungenially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more ungenially
form: most ungenially
Etymology: From ungenial + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The sun glared ungenially at that blot upon the waters, breeding infectious disease; the waves flung the hated burden from one to the other, disdainful of her freight of sin; the winds had no commission for fair sailing, but whistled through the rigging crossways, howling in the ears of many in that ship, as if they carried ghosts along with them[…]
ref: 1851, Martin Farquhar Tupper, Heart:
text: Very many thousand times above Dudley Sowerby, Nataly ranked Dartrey Fenellan; and still she looked at him, where he sat beside Nesta, ungenially, critical of the very features, jealously in the interests of Dudley; and recollecting, too, that she had once prayed for one exactly resembling Dartrey Fenellan to be her Nesta's husband.
ref: 1897, George Meredith, One of Our Conquerors, Complete:
glosses: In an ungenial manner.
Meredithian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Meredithian
form: most Meredithian
Etymology: From Meredith + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to George Meredith (1828-1909), English poet and novelist.
unmedical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unmedical
form: most unmedical
Etymology: From un- + medical.
Senses: examples: text: The medical gentleman […] was observed to laugh and wink, and look as unmedical as might be; but when Mr. Leaver came back he was very solemn […]
ref: 1836, “Boz” [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], Sketches by “Boz,” Illustrative of Every-day Life, and Every-day People. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Macrone, […], →OCLC:
text: The press […] failed to give the watching world an actual vision of the fullness and vividness, the unmedical life, of the deaf.
ref: 1989, Oliver Sacks, Seeing Voices: A Journey into the World of the Deaf:
text: A few years ago, you may remember, I turned up the medical term "ice cream headache," which is completely unmedical in that you don't have to consult a doctor to find out what it means.
ref: 1996 December 13, Cecil Adams, “THEY THOUGHT OF THE WORD FOR WHEN YOU CAN'T THINK OF THE WORD. UNFORTUNATELY, THEY ALL THOUGHT OF A DIFFERENT WORD.”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Not medical.
unmaterial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unmaterial
form: most unmaterial
Etymology: From un- + material.
Senses: examples: text: Gianluca was a shadow, an unmaterial being, a thought--anything ethereal, but not a man.
ref: 1895, F. Marion Crawford, Taquisara:
text: Yet whether other beings, other presences, unmaterial, imponderable, intangible, did not walk the streets along with them, is open to doubt.
ref: 1919, Lucas Malet, Deadham Hard:
glosses: Not material; lacking tangible physical form.
unmacadamized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + macadamized.
Senses: examples: text: The day, notwithstanding it was now October, was intensely hot (although a severe frost for two or three days before gave indications of approaching winter), and the streets being unmacadamized, had that arid look we read of in accounts of the plains of Arabia, the dust being quite deep, and exceeding in quantity anything of the kind I had ever seen in European cities: clouds of it impregnated the air, and rendered respiration and sight difficult.
ref: 1857, John Benwell, An Englishman's Travels in America:
text: Rare, in these days, was the carriage, or stage-coach for the traveller; / Roads, unmacadamized, making rude havoc of delicate springs.
ref: 1862, Lydia Howard Sigourney, Man of Uz, and Other Poems:
glosses: Not macadamized.
unloyal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unloyal
form: most unloyal
Etymology: From un- + loyal.
Senses: examples: text: I happened to hear of the Pomeroy letter in behalf of Mr. Chase, and I learned with amazement that Chase was conspiring with his friends to secure the nomination for the Presidency, and was untrue and unloyal to his chief.
ref: 1911, Shelby M. Cullom, Fifty Years of Public Service:
text: Particularly did the Kaiser call attention to the equivocal and unloyal position of England which had destroyed the hope of a peaceful issue.
ref: 1918, James W. Gerard, Face to Face with Kaiserism:
glosses: Not loyal.
unlovingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unlovingly
form: most unlovingly
Etymology: From unloving + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Alack! The alien of the sea,
Keen iron, fire's own child,
With bitter blows, unlovingly
Their quarrel reconciled;
ref: 1922, “The Seven against Thebes”, in Geoffrey Montagu Cookson, transl., Four Plays of Aeschylus, page 152:
glosses: In an unloving manner; without giving love.
ungrasped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + grasped.
Senses: examples: text: And if perchance some fleeting memories steal, Like far-off echoes to my dreaming ear, Away, ungrasped, the cheating visions wheel, As spectres start upon the wing of fear.
ref: 1851, Sam G. Goodrich, Poems:
text: All his life he had been hurrying desperately, and all his life the true moments had offered themselves and been left ungrasped.
ref: 1910, Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, Shining Ferry:
glosses: Not grasped.
ungrasped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From ungrasp + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ungrasp
ungladdened
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ungladdened
form: most ungladdened
Etymology: From un- + gladdened.
Senses: glosses: Not gladdened.
unglad
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unglad
form: most unglad
Etymology: From Middle English unglad, from Old English unglæd, from Proto-West Germanic *unglad, from Proto-Germanic *ungladaz, equivalent to un- + glad. Cognate with Saterland Frisian uunglääd, West Frisian ûnglêd, Dutch onglad, German Low German ungladd, German unglatt, Danish uglad, Swedish oglad, Icelandic óglaður.
Senses: glosses: Not glad; unhappy, joyless.
ungenial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ungenial
form: most ungenial
Etymology: From un- + genial.
Senses: examples: text: And yet this same ungenial climate, hostile as it generally is to the long remembrance of departed people, has sometimes a lovely way of dealing with the records on certain monuments that lie horizontally in the open air.
ref: 1862, Various, The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, Number 60, October 1862:
text: The weather is raw and boisterous in winter, shifty and ungenial in summer, and a downright meteorological purgatory in the spring.
ref: 1879, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter I, in Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes […], London: Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, […], →OCLC, page 1:
text: It may make folks smile and stare; but the ungenial coalition of barbarous with refined phrases will prevent you in the end from being so generally tasted as you desire to be.
ref: 1892, Charles Lamb, The Best Letters of Charles Lamb:
glosses: Not genial.
ungartered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + gartered.
Senses: examples: text: He is untrussed, unbuttoned, and ungartered, not out of carelessness, but care; his farthest end being but going to bed.
ref: 1891, Various, Character Writings of the 17th Century:
text: Then your hose should be ungartered, your bonnet unbanded, your sleeve unbuttoned, your shoe untied, and everything about you demonstrating a careless desolation."
ref: 1899, Henry Theophilus Finck, Primitive Love and Love-Stories:
text: Happily the table behind which he stood was one of those old-fashioned toilet affairs, with the back part, which was turned toward the door, sheeted over with wood, so that his ungartered stockings and rascally old slippers, were invisible.
ref: 1904, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Church-Yard:
glosses: Not gartered.
ungartered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From un- + gartered.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ungarter
ungathered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English ungadered, equivalent to un- + gathered.
Senses: examples: text: My researches have included extensive and varied fields of fact and of thought, even though very much in those fields has been left ungathered.
ref: 1856, H. Clay Trumbull, A Lie Never Justifiable:
text: The next device of Ismael was to call the Mussulmans of the interior into the fortresses, and when we protested against this as dangerous and utterly uncalled for, the pasha sent a counter order; but the bearers of it met the unfortunate Mussulmans by the way, having abandoned everything, thrown their silkworms to the fowls, and left their crops ungathered, and being ready to vent their hostility on the innocent Christian population, whom they made responsible for the disaster.
ref: 1901, William James Stillman, The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume II:
glosses: Not gathered or picked.
glosses: Not gathered together, as of printed sheets folded but not yet ordered for binding.
unfrequent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unfrequent
form: most unfrequent
Etymology: From un- (not) + frequent.
Senses: examples: text: He was labouring under a pleurisy, which is not unfrequent in the mountainous region, at this season.
ref: 1827, George Tucker, A Voyage to the Moon:
text: It was no unfrequent event, however, for vessels to be lost.
ref: 1916, Fedor Jagor, Tomas de Comyn, Chas. Wilkes, Rudolf Virchow., The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes:
glosses: Not frequent; not common; not happening often; infrequent.
Synonyms: rare
scarce
uncommon
Related terms: unfrequency
unfrequent
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unfrequents
form: unfrequenting
form: unfrequented
form: unfrequented
Etymology: From un- (reversive prefix) + frequent.
Senses: glosses: To stop frequenting; cease to frequent.
unprophetically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unprophetically
form: most unprophetically
Etymology: From unprophetic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an unprophetic manner; without foresight.
unforeseeing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unforeseeing
form: most unforeseeing
Etymology: From un- + foreseeing.
Senses: examples: text: And then he seemed to discern in her something that was familiar, something which carried him back into a joyous and unforeseeing past, before the necessity of taking thought had made the heavens gray.
ref: 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC:
text: It was that spirit sent Oliver Cromwell himself packing for America, though a heedless and ill-advised and unforeseeing King would not let him go.
ref: 1914, H. G. Wells, An Englishman Looks at the World:
glosses: Not foreseeing; without foresight.
unforgot
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unforgot
form: most unforgot
Etymology: From un- + forgot.
Senses: examples: text: Wept,—for an impress on the face she viewed—The stamp of feelings she remembered not; His voice was calmer now, but more subdued, Not like the voice long loved and unforgot!
ref: 1896, Jean Ingelow, Poems by Jean Ingelow, […], volume II:
text: I pine with heart-pain unforgot; / Down through my arbour grass it rolled, / My own pearl, precious, without spot.
ref: 1908, Sophie Jewett, The Pearl:
glosses: Archaic form of unforgotten.
unforgot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: un-forgot
Etymology: From un- + forgot.
Senses: glosses: simple past of unforget
unformalizability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + formalizability.
Senses: examples: the unformalizability of natural language
glosses: The quality of being unformalizable.
unasking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unasking
form: most unasking
Etymology: From un- + asking.
Senses: examples: text: I know now there should have been no higher beatitude than to live in the presence of an unselfish, unasking, vital love.
ref: 1901, Elizabeth Stoddard, The Morgesons:
text: Only the great, tender soul was visible to her; the unasking, the kind spirit.
ref: 1914, Harriet T. Comstock, The Place Beyond the Winds:
glosses: Not making demands.
unasking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unask
unassorted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unassorted
form: most unassorted
Etymology: From un- + assorted.
Senses: examples: text: Some of the State institutions, however, burdened as they are with a large and unassorted mass of pupils, have made most encouraging progress in this direction.
ref: 1876, Various, Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, April, 1876.:
text: Out of sorts means mixed, unclassified, unassorted, having one's functions disordered.
ref: 1900, Blackwood Ketcham Benson, Who Goes There?:
text: The sexual tragedy of modern life lies, not in the fact that woman as such is tending to differ fundamentally from man as such; but that, in the unassorted confusion of our modern life, it is continually the modified type of man or woman who is thrown into the closest personal relations with the antiquated type of the opposite sex[…]
ref: 1911, Olive Schreiner, Woman and Labour:
glosses: unsorted, unordered; miscellaneous
unballasted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + ballasted.
Senses: examples: text: Then, as if the clouds had discharged their aqueous cargo and rode light as unballasted ships, they lifted in aerial fleets and sailed away, white in a blue sky.
ref: 1922, Bertrand W. Sinclair, The Hidden Places:
topics: economics
sciences
shipping
transport
glosses: Not loaded or stabilised with ballast.
examples: text: It was a rickety concern, was unballasted, and looked as if, loosely thrown together, it had never filled its original mission and had been practically abandoned.
ref: 1908, Allen Chapman, Bart Stirling's Road to Success:
glosses: Unstable, liable to flounder.
uncaricatured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + caricatured.
Senses: examples: text: This is curiously illustrated in his handling of what is, perhaps, the next most successful of the uncaricatured portraits in the Shandy gallery--the presentment of the Rev. Mr. Yorick.
ref: 1882, H.D. Traill, Sterne:
text: Now, in the human character of Jesus Christ, we see, for the first time, the perfect, genuine, uncaricatured humanity, in which the human will is at every point in absolute agreement and fellowship with the Divine Will.
ref: 1908, J. H. Beibitz, Gloria Crucis:
glosses: Not caricatured.
uncalcined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + calcined.
Senses: examples: text: It is obviously desirable, before attempting to interpret the structures exhibited, under the microscope, to compare the fresh and uncalcined materials with those that have been more or less altered by heat.
ref: 1887, Various, Scientific American Supplement, No. 595, May 28, 1887:
glosses: Not calcined.
unbodied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + bodied.
Senses: examples: text: If Thy indulgent Care / Had not preven'd, among unbody'd Shades / I now had wander'd
ref: 1708, [John Philips], “Book I”, in Cyder. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 43:
text: Immediately the unbodied souls of my ancestors appeared before me.
ref: 1802, William Priest, Travels in the United States of America:
text: Thou who didst come unbodied and alone, Ere yet the sun was set his rule to keep, Or ever the moon shone, Or e'er the wandering star-flocks forth were driven!
ref: 1864, George MacDonald, A Hidden Life and Other Poems:
text: Their unbodied heads, wherever they may be, are still smiling on the world, despite their divorcement.
ref: 1917, Charles S. Brooks, There's Pippins And Cheese To Come:
glosses: disembodied; without a body; separated from the body
unbenefited
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: unbenefitted
Etymology: From un- + benefited.
Senses: examples: text: The zealous citizens would suspend their avocations for a while, would repeat a reverential prayer as the holy men went by, and then return to the absorbing calls of business, not unbenefited by the recollections just awakened in their minds.
ref: 1843 October, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume LIV, number CCCXXXVI:
text: Ought a possibly large number, Swithin included, to remain unbenefited, because the one individual to whom his release would be an injury chanced to be herself?
ref: 1882, Thomas Hardy, chapter VI, in Two on a Tower. A Romance. [...] In Three Volumes, volume III, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, […], →OCLC, page 95:
glosses: Having received no benefit.
unbenefitted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of unbenefited.
uncharity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uncharities
Etymology: From un- + charity.
Senses: examples: text: There are, indeed, many who have a special facility for languages, but in their case (with a few exceptions) one may say without uncharity that the acquisition of ideas is not their object, though if they did acquire them they would probably be new ones.
ref: 1881, James Payn, Some Private Views:
text: Kindly and charitable all through and ever eager to draw out the good in everybody and forgive the bad, Mr. Taynton had often occasion to deplore the hardness and uncharity of a world which remembers youthful errors and hangs them, like a mill-stone, round the neck of the offender, and it warmed his heart and kindled his smile to think of one case at any rate where a youthful misdemeanour was lived down and forgotten.
ref: 1908, E. F. Benson, The Blotting Book:
synonyms: discharity
incharity
uncharitableness
glosses: Absence of charity.
unclassed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + classed.
Senses: examples: text: If for centuries, this particular animal is known to attack only one kind of other animal, are we not justified in assuming that when one of them attacks a hitherto unclassed animal, he recognises in that animal some quality which it has in common with the hereditary enemy?"
ref: 1911, Bram Stoker, The Lair of the White Worm:
text: It may perhaps be thought by some that this movement represented on a higher plane that love of distruction, or, as we should better say, that spirit of revolt and aspiration, which Simmel finds to mark the intellectual and artistic activity of those who are unclassed or dubiously classed in the social hierarchy.
ref: 1927, Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 (of 6):
text: The Birmingham Railway Carriage & Wagon Co. has recently delivered 19 unclassed restaurant cars for service on British Railways.
ref: 1960 April, “Restaurant cars and multiple-units”, in Trains Illustrated, page 221:
glosses: Not assigned a class.
unclassic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unclassic
form: most unclassic
Etymology: From un- + classic.
Senses: examples: text: […]he has forsworn soft, trailing garments that conceal unclassic curves and uninspiring lines of nether limbs[…]
ref: 1897, Dorothy Quigley, What Dress Makes of Us:
text: The decorous and beautiful despising of one's self that the study of the classics has come to be as conducted under unclassic teachers, is a fact that speaks for itself.
ref: 1903, Gerald Stanley Lee, The Lost Art of Reading:
glosses: unclassical
uncircumcision
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uncircumcisions
Etymology: From un- + circumcision.
Senses: examples: text: For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love."
ref: 1812, Andrew Lee, Sermons on Various Important Subjects:
text: As the apostle of the Gentiles declares, that circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God: so as baptism occupies the place of circumcision, baptism is nothing and the want of it nothing, unless accompanied with a sincere, universal and irrevocable purpose to keep the commandments of God.
ref: 1856, Samuel Simon Schmucker, American Lutheranism Vindicated; or, Examination of the Lutheran Symbols, on Certain Disputed Topics:
glosses: The absence of a circumcision; not being circumcised.
unconceivable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unconceivable
form: most unconceivable
Etymology: From un- + conceivable.
Senses: examples: text: I am now going out in a sleigh (and four) with unconceivable dignity and grandeur; mentioning which reminds me that I am informed by trusty scouts that —— intends to waylay me at Washington, and may even descend upon me in the train to-morrow.
ref: 1880, Charles Dickens, The Letters of Charles Dickens:
text: The kind liberty granted us of wearing Indian stuffs, and calicoes, to gratify the vanity and folly of our women; which, beside the profit to England, is an unconceivable loss to us; forcing the weavers to beg in our streets, or transport themselves to foreign countries.
ref: 1903, Jonathan Swift, The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, Vol. VI; The Drapier's Letters:
glosses: That cannot be conceived; unimaginable; inconceivable.