nandhakumarms/qualc-wiktionary-en huggingface dataset:
Word: unaccentuated Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *keh₂n-der. Proto-Italic *kanō Latin canō Latin accinō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus ▲ Ancient Greek προσῳδῐ́ᾱ (prosōidĭ́ā)calq. Latin accentus Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin accentuō Medieval Latin accentuātusbor. English accentuated English unaccentuated From un- + accentuated. 1. Not accentuated. Example: an unaccentuated syllable
Word: uncheery Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + cheery. 1. Not cheery; gloomy, pessimistic. Example: We owe them nothing but good will; for we rather regard things poetically than politically, and we are anxious to inform and amuse the reader--not to perplex, by constantly reminding him of his uncheery lot in life. Example: On the whole, I have sat under the wing of Saint Swithin; uncheery, sluggish, murky, as the wettest of his Days;--hoping always, nevertheless, that blue sky, figurative and real, does exist, and will demonstrate itself by and by.
Word: uncommunicable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + communicable. 1. Impossible to communicate. Example: But within herself nothing was changed; the same little soul was now as it had been long ago, she could hear it talking, living its intense life within her unknown to everyone, an uncommunicable thing, unchanged among much change.
Word: unchangingness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From unchanging + -ness. 1. The quality of being unchanging; constancy. Labels: uncountable
Word: unchangedness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From unchanged + -ness. 1. The quality of being unchanged. Labels: uncountable Example: After my long absence, I was immediately struck by the unchangedness of the town.
Word: unconquerably Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From unconquerable + -ly. 1. In an unconquerable manner. Example: Our rural tracts--where no Babel-chimney scales the heavens--are without mighty objects to fill the soul with the sense of an outer world unconquerably aloof from our efforts. Example: Mr. EDMUND GOSSE contributes a foreword to the present volume, in which he draws a pathetic picture of the author, still unconquerably young, despite his years, facing the future with only one fear, that of the unemployment to which his increasing deafness, and the break-up of the world as it was before the War, seemed to be condemning him.
Word: uncommendable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + commendable. 1. Not commendable. Example: During the last two centuries men appear to have striven, with a most uncommendable zeal, all over Christendom, to root out and extirpate every trace of the Gothic. Example: He arrived at the Eighty-second Street apartment about six o'clock in the evening, and, after studying the dingy name-plates, took the five flights of stairs with uncommendable speed, and presented himself at the rear door on the sixth floor.
Word: uncomforted Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + comforted. 1. Not comforted. Example: Shall you never go with any one; shall you and I, so near to each other, with so much to keep us together, go always uncomforted. Example: And the two women mourned, uncomforted.
Word: uncherished Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + cherished. 1. Not cherished. Example: The reason why the primrose was said to "die unmarried," is, according to Warton, because it grows in the shade uncherished or unseen by the sun, who was supposed to be in love with certain sorts of flowers. Example: We must go through life unloved and uncherished, bringing princes into the world, seeing happiness and love just beyond our reach all the time.
Word: uncommissioned Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + commissioned. 1. Not commissioned. Labels: not-comparable Example: One single individual, amidst a vast empire nearly overthrown, surveys its danger with steady eye: he measures, he appreciates it, and ventures, perhaps uncommissioned, to devote all the public and private interests a sacrifice to it. Example: Why should not a widow, having two uncommissioned sons in the army, have her remaining son exempt, as well as if her husband were still living?
Word: unconcealable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + concealable. 1. That cannot be concealed. Example: Notwithstanding his clothes, there was an air of breeding about him, unconcealable, a thing apart, even, from his good looks.
Word: unconscientious Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + conscientious. 1. Not conscientious. Example: This enabled an unconscientious builder to furnish bulky architectural masses, which presented a specious aspect of solidity and looked more costly than they really were.
Word: unconsulted Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + consulted. 1. Not consulted. Labels: not-comparable Example: And, I believe, my lords, all the other general officers were equally unconsulted, and would, if their advice had been asked, equally have disapproved the measures that have been pursued. Example: And man's first thoughts of the world and the strangely romantic life he is suddenly called up, out of nothingness, to live, unconsulted, uninstructed, left to feel his way in the blinding radiance up into which he has been mysteriously thrust[…]
Word: uncalcified Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + calcified. 1. Not calcified. Labels: not-comparable Example: The amplitude images are highly detailed and exhibit variations in acoustic emission from both calcified and uncalcified regions of the diseased artery. Example: Moreover, the lepralielliform ovicell, in which the ectooecium is entirely calcified though perforated by numerous pseudopores, precludes these species from being affiliated with taxa having a microporelliform ovicell, in which the ectooecium is uncalcified.
Word: uncalculable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + calculable. 1. Impossible to calculate.
Word: uncontagious Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + contagious. 1. Not contagious. Example: His breathlessly ardent attempts to infuse the role with import founder on the lack of any erotic feeling between him and his screaming victim, played with uncontagious hysteria by Penny Slusher.
Word: undebased Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + debased. 1. Not debased. Example: But thy free bounty, undebased by pride, Prompt to anticipate the meek request, Unask'd the wants of modest Worth supplied, And spared the pang that shook the suppliant's breast. Example: Dancing, which is not only rhythmic movement, pure and simple, undebased with any element of utility, but is capable of performance under conditions positively baneful, is for these reasons the most engaging of them all[…]
Word: unbetrayed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + betrayed. 1. Not betrayed. Labels: not-comparable Example: The yet unbetrayed traitor stayed after the searchers were gone. Example: […]to league himself with two criminals, assist them to enter the house and to escape from it, and hope to come off unscathed and unsuspected and forever unbetrayed.
Word: unbetrayed Part of Speech: verb 1. simple past and past participle of unbetray Labels: form-of, participle, past
Word: unbetrothed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + betrothed. 1. Not betrothed. Labels: not-comparable Example: Elizabeth in consequence remained unbetrothed, and her father soon afterwards secured to himself a more strenuous ally in the earl of Lenox, also of the blood-royal of Scotland, by bestowing upon this nobleman the hand, not of his daughter, but of his niece the lady Margaret Douglas. Example: The early pledging and marriage of the children has reduced illicit sexual intercourse to a minimum; nevertheless, it sometimes happens that an unbetrothed girl, not a pota, is found to be pregnant.
Word: unanswering Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + answering. 1. Giving no answer; unresponsive. Labels: not-comparable Example: Lying so, her face turned up against it, her stiffened lips kissing the very dumb, unanswering wood, a thought came to her. Example: He shouted till he was hoarse, and till the sound of his own voice in all that unanswering and listening world began to frighten him.
Word: unannoyed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Italic *en Proto-Italic *en- Latin in- Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed-der. Proto-Italic *odjom Latin odium Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Late Latin inodiāre Old French enoiierbor. Middle English anoyen English annoyed English unannoyed From un- + annoyed. 1. Not annoyed. Example: Being a large commercial place, he here expects to behold all the happy effects of the new constitution; he congratulates himself on travelling at a period when he can procure information, and discuss his political opinions, unannoyed by fears of state prisons, and spies of the police. Example: He has loafed, seen the country and green things, laughed in joy, lain on his back and listened to the birds singing overhead, unannoyed by factory whistles and bosses' harsh commands; and, most significant of all, he has lived!
Word: annualization Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From annual + -ization. 1. The process of annualizing. Labels: countable, uncountable
Word: annualizations Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of annualization Labels: form-of, plural
Word: undelaying Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + delaying. 1. Not delaying; prompt.
Word: undisfigured Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + disfigured. 1. Not disfigured. Example: Let then the beauty be undisfigured and the retirement unviolated, unless there be reason for believing that rights and interests of a higher kind and more apparent than those which have been urged in behalf of the projected intrusion will compensate the sacrifice. Example: Last week a woman whom she knew had had her nose broken in an automobile accident, and as she remembered this it seemed to her that the mere fact of her undisfigured features was sufficient to be the cause of joyful gratitude.
Word: undiseased Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + diseased. 1. Not diseased. Example: He was a contemplative, rather stout gentleman, of excellent digestion--of quiet perceptions, undiseased by hypothesis, happy in his inability to know the causes of things, preferring the things themselves. Example: But loveliness of colour, perfectness of form, endlessness of change, wonderfulness of structure, are precious to all undiseased human minds; and the superiority of the mountains in all these things to the lowland is, I repeat, as measurable as the richness of a painted window matched with a white one, or the wealth of a museum compared with that of a simply furnished chamber.
Word: undiscouraged Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + discouraged. 1. Not discouraged. Example: Though they were attentive and inquisitive, it was long before fruit appeared; but undiscouraged, she, with prayer and faith, continued to sow beside all waters. Mrs. Judson was surprised at the native intelligence and reflecting minds possessed by some of the Burmese women. Example: When out of work and still undiscouraged, he has been forced to "hit the road" between large cities in his quest for a job.
Word: undevout Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + devout. 1. Not devout. Example: If we could but remember that, there would be no fear of our being ungodly, irreligious, undevout. Example: Larry was undevout, careless, thinking little of spiritual things, so little, that he had scarcely troubled himself either to question or to accept what he had been taught, but he was quick to respond to emotion of any kind; now he listened, with an unaccustomed reverence, to Barty's voice, brokenly whispering the prayers of his Church.
Word: undespairing Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + despairing. 1. Not despairing. Example: Whatever may have been his thoughts, the undespairing Norman grappled with his troubles in the usual way.
Word: underivative Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + derivative. 1. Not derivative. Example: The ideas of substance and of the attributes are conceived through themselves, or immediately (intuitively) cognized; they are underivative, original, self-evident ideas.
Word: undelighted Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + delighted. 1. Not delighted. Example: While ravish'd fancy vivifies the form, While judgment toils to analyze its charm, While admiration spreads her speaking hands, The lofty artist undelighted stands[…] Example: And renew, by necessity, / Night after night your courses, / In echoing, unnear'd silence, / Above a race you know not-- / Uncaring and undelighted, / Without friend and without home[…]
Word: undelightful Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + delightful. 1. Not delightful. Example: [Y]our Harriet may turn gadfly, and never be eaſy but vvhen ſhe is forming parties, or giving vvay to them, that may make the home, that hitherto has been the chief ſcene of her pleaſures, undelightful to her. Example: Every trick that money can play with the most lavish abundance of water is here exhibited; nor is the sight of a jet d'eau, or the murmur of an artificial cascade, undelightful in a hot day, let the Nature-mongers say what they please.
Word: undeflected Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + deflected. 1. Not deflected. Labels: not-comparable Example: By sliding this prism in front of the spectrum I can deflect outward any portion of the spectrum I like, and by a mirror can reflect it through a second lens, forming a patch of light on the screen overlapping the patch of light formed by the undeflected rays. Example: A lump of matter flying in space might enter our solar system with such speed as to be able to pass through and go on its way almost undeflected.
Word: undiminishing Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + diminishing. 1. Not diminishing. Example: Their misery, however, was an undiminishing burden, yea, even in the days in which, according to Erasmus, it was joy to live. Example: We saw freshly-killed horses on the roadside, and in the Grande Place in "Pop" the fresh shell holes showed that the process of hammering was still going on with undiminishing vigour.
Word: unforeknown Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + foreknown. 1. Not known in advance. Labels: not-comparable Example: Foreknowledge had no influence on their fault, / Which had no less proved certain unforeknown. Example: And, no doubt, it was destiny of a sort, unforeknown, deceitful, apparently malignant, that sent Charlotte back again to Brussels after her aunt's death.
Word: unexemplified Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + exemplified. 1. Not exemplified; of which no example has been seen. Labels: not-comparable Example: It is remarkable that, in reviewing my collection, I found the word SEA unexemplified. Example: Would it not be an unexemplified unthankfulness to requite rebellion to him, for so much unparalleled affection?
Word: uneffaced Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + effaced. 1. Not effaced. Labels: not-comparable Example: She knew her baby through his manly stature and mature features, less from his likeness to his father than from certain uneffaced traces of infantine form and expression. Example: If there is any truth in the old adage that a burnt child dreads the fire, I ought to be very loath to touch a sermon, while the memory of what befell me on a recent occasion, possibly not yet forgotten by the readers of the Nineteenth Century, is uneffaced.
Word: Vandyke Part of Speech: noun 1. Alternative letter-case form of vandyke. Labels: alt-of
Word: Vandyke Part of Speech: name 1. A surname
Word: unemancipated Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + emancipated. 1. Not emancipated. Example: Outside lay emancipated Berrytown, to unemancipated Kitty only a dumb panorama: inside, her meals, her lessons and perpetual consultations with her mother on bias folds and gussets while they made their dresses or sewed for the Indian missions. Example: The first reason is that the unemancipated teacher instinctively does to-day what he did twenty years ago, and that twenty years ago, when children were examined in reading from their own books, the teacher heard them read aloud, day after day in order that he might make sure that they knew their books well enough to pass the inspector's test.
Word: unenjoyed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + enjoyed. 1. Not enjoyed. Example: For I think it truth that a life uncommanded now is uncommanded; a life unenjoyed now is unenjoyed; a life not lived wisely now is not lived wisely: for the past is gone and no one knows the future. Example: A thousand gay and pleasant hours are wasted in ill-humor; we let them slip by unenjoyed, and sigh for them in vain when the sky is overcast.
Word: Vandykes Part of Speech: noun 1. plural of Vandyke Labels: form-of, plural
Word: unessayed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + essayed. 1. Not essayed; unattempted. Labels: not-comparable Example: The standing instructions of our representatives at Madrid and Havana have for years been to leave no effort unessayed to further these ends, and at no time has the equal good desire of Spain been more hopefully manifested than now. Example: If ever it should be necessary to encounter it, if I were pursued like a wild beast, till I could no longer avoid turning upon my hunters, I would then turn upon the true author of this unprincipled attack; I would encounter the calumny in its strong hold; I would rouse myself to an exertion hitherto unessayed; and, by the firmness, intrepidity, and unalterable constancy I should display, would yet compel mankind to believe Mr. Falkland a suborner and a murderer!
Word: unjarring Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + jarring. 1. Not jarring; smooth.
Word: unjarring Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of unjar Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: unexhaustible Part of Speech: adj Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs Proto-Italic *eks Latin ex Latin ex- Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews- Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews-ye-tider. Proto-Italic *auzjō Latin hauriō Latin exhauriō Latin exhaustusder. English exhaust Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ibilis Old French -ibleder. Middle English -ible English -ible English exhaustible English unexhaustible From un- + exhaustible. 1. Not exhaustible; endless; inexhaustible. Example: He was a perfect matter of the Greek, Latin and French languages; and, which is seldom known to happen, had at once such a prodigious memory, and unexhaustible fund of wit, as would have singly been admired, and much more united. Example: He began to tell them of the white man's food, of its variety and unexhaustible quantity.
Word: unenvying Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + envying. 1. Not envying. Example: Even Sir Ralph was struck with her extreme gracefulness, and pointed her out to Mistress Nicholas, who, unenvying and amiable, joined heartily in his praises. Example: "I think not," said Mrs. Markham, with a glance at Julia, who, never withdrawing her eyes, stood with lips slightly apart, and her face bright with unenvying admiration.
Word: unenvious Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + envious. 1. Not envious. Example: I am as sure as if I had omniscient sight into the depths of his good heart that he has distinct and unenvious joy in every pleasure that he sees other people taking. Example: Eleanor's sweet eyes shone so kindly on her successful rival, and she showed so frank and unenvious an admiration of Sylvia's wit and learning, displayed perhaps a trifle ostentatiously by that young lady in the ensuing conversation with Mrs. Draper, that Sylvia had a fresh, healing impulse of shame for her own recently acquired attitude of triumphing hostility towards the world.
Word: unenviously Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From unenvious + -ly. 1. Without envy.
Word: undivined Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + divined. 1. Not divined. Labels: not-comparable Example: In the actual sounds of many of the Hebrew letters lies a singular power, unguessed by the majority, undivined especially, of course, by the mere scholar, but available for the pure in heart who may discover how to use their extraordinary values. Example: He looked up at the sound of the swift step and the sudden stir, and for one instant their eyes met--an inscrutable look, fraught with an undivined meaning.
Word: undomestic Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + domestic. 1. Not domestic. Example: Yet one word more of personal concern-- Since I withdrew unwillingly from France, I led an undomestic wanderer's life, 350 In London chiefly harboured, whence I roamed, Tarrying at will in many a pleasant spot Of rural England's cultivated vales Or Cambrian solitudes. Example: Kate knew it was not really home, but she had to admit that these busy undomestic moderns had found a good substitute for it: or, at least, that, taking their domesticity through the mediumship of Mrs. Dennison, they contrived to absorb enough of it to keep them going.
Word: undrooping Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + drooping. 1. Not drooping. Example: A good deed done hath memory's blest perfume,-- A day of self-forgetfulness, all given To holy charity, hath perennial bloom That goes, undrooping, up from earth to heaven. Example: Her eye was clear, her skin fresh, her shoulders undrooping.
Word: undulled Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + dulled. 1. Not dulled; sharp or alert. Example: How can we help admiring that open and cheerful brow which, as yet, no care or sin has furrowed; those light and active limbs, full of health and vigour; the eye so quick; the ear so undulled; the memory so ready; the young curiosity so eager to take in new knowledge; the young feelings, not yet spoiled by over-excitement, ready to admire, ready to love? Example: In order to keep his intellect undulled by the routine of his dreary work, Matthew Arnold was wont to write a few lines of poetry each day.
Word: undistinguishing Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + distinguishing. 1. Failing to distinguish; undiscerning. Example: Nor can we avoid ascribing the undistinguishing and extravagant applause, that has been bestowed upon the style, to the same source of fashion, the rank, the fortune, the connexions of the writer. Example: What had she to say that would not humble herself and pain her family; that would not increase her own grief by the confession of it, extend an useless resentment, and perhaps involve the innocent with the guilty in undistinguishing ill-will?
Word: unenfeebled Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + enfeebled. 1. Not enfeebled. Example: Signe did not hesitate to back up his words with like dissembling, and replied that it was natural that hands which dealt more in wounds than wools, and in battle than in tasks of the house should show the hardness that befitted their service; and that, unenfeebled with the pliable softness of women, they should not feel smooth to the touch of others. Example: Further, she would be more likely to bring to the bearing and rearing of her children a constitution unenfeebled by premature overwork and energies unsapped by its monotonous grind.
Word: unenlivening Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + enlivening. 1. Not enlivening. Example: There were books with dreary, unenlivening titles,--egotistic always, as recording Smith's opinions on this, and Jones's commentaries on that. Example: These unenlivening calculations were catching.
Word: unfigured Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + figured. 1. Not figured; not marked with a pattern. Labels: not-comparable Example: The best covering for a Kitchen Floor is a thick unfigured oil-cloth, of one colour. Example: In King Victor and King Charles Browning adopted, and no doubt deliberately, a plain, unfigured and uncoloured style, as suiting both the characters and the historical subject. 2. Not figurative; literal. Labels: not-comparable
Word: unflecked Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + flecked. 1. Not marked with flecks. Example: The ceaseless motion of the vessel rocking at the centre of a circular space of blue, with a perfectly symmetrical dome of azure enclosing her above, unflecked by a single cloud, becomes at last almost unbearable from its changeless sameness of environment. Example: Shores that Stella had last seen dismal and forlorn in the frost-fog, sheathed in ice, banked with deep snow, lay sparkling now in warm sunshine, under an unflecked arch of blue.
Word: unfearing Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + fearing. 1. Without fearing. Example: The little Dog learned, without more ado, And soon could sit upright and walk upright too; In deepest waters unfearing could spring, And whatever was lost could speedily bring. Example: What, perhaps, with other things, made Stubb such an easy-going, unfearing man, so cheerily trudging off with the burden of life in a world full of grave peddlers, all bowed to the ground with their packs; […]
Word: unfearingly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From unfearing + -ly. 1. Without fearing; fearlessly.
Word: uncreatable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + creatable. 1. Impossible to create. Labels: not-comparable Example: Matter is uncreatable and indestructible; Nature and man can only form and transform. Example: We are enabled to see with the penetrating vision of the mathematical insight that no less real and no more real are these fantastic forms of the world of relativity than those supposed to be uncreatable or indestructible in the play of the forces of nature.
Word: unfamed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + famed. 1. Not famed. Example: Ere that, I'll perish here, unfamed, forgotten! Example: O black slave singers, gone, forgot, unfamed, You--you alone, of all the long, long line Of those who've sung untaught, unknown, unnamed, Have stretched out upward, seeking the divine.
Word: unfeared Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + feared. 1. Not feared. Example: Blessed be God that there are still places where grinding poverty is unfelt and unfeared! Example: The excitement, and danger, and hurry and bustle constantly incident to travel at the present day were all unfelt and unfeared by this company.
Word: unblack Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + black. 1. Not black. Labels: not-comparable, uncommon
Word: betread Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English bitreden, from Old English betredan, equivalent to be- + tread. Cognate with German betreten, Middle Low German betreden, Dutch betreden, Swedish beträda, Norwegian Bokmål betrede, betre and Danish betræde. 1. To tread over or walk upon. Labels: transitive
Word: unclerical Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + clerical. 1. Not clerical. Example: 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. Example: 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.
Word: uncramped Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + cramped. 1. Not cramped. Example: 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. Example: 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.
Word: unannealed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + annealed. 1. Not annealed. Labels: not-comparable Example: 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. Example: 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.
Word: annealable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From anneal + -able. 1. Capable of being annealed.
Word: undecent Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + decent. 1. Not decent; indecent. Example: Conversation is immoral, where the discourse is undecent, immodest, scandalous, slanderous, and abusive. Example: 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.
Word: uninforming Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + informing. 1. Failing to yield information; uninformative. Example: She looked at him closely, with a quick suspicion, but found his profile uninforming; at least of anything needful at the moment. Example: Lady Geoghegan plied hers with questions, and received a series of quite uninforming answers.
Word: unmended Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + mended. 1. Not mended. Labels: not-comparable Example: 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. Example: 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.
Word: unmetaphorical Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + metaphorical. 1. Not metaphorical. Example: An unmetaphorical style you shall in vain seek for: is not your very Attention a Stretching-to? Example: 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.
Word: unhurrying Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + hurrying. 1. Not hurrying. Example: 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. Example: The story is epic in its magnitude, in its calm, steady progress and unhurrying rhythm, in its vast and intimate humanity.
Word: unimitable Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + imitable. 1. That cannot be imitated. Example: 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. Example: […]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.
Word: unlearnedly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From unlearned + -ly. 1. In an unlearned manner. Example: 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. Example: 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.
Word: unharming Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + harming. 1. Doing no harm. Example: From Edgar Linton, as we have seen, Heathcliff's blows fell aside unharming, as the executioner's strokes from a legendary martyr. Example: The snow struck the bottle, but the unharming bullet was buried half an inch to the left.
Word: unhasting Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + hasting. 1. Without haste. Example: 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. Example: A policeman with his arms hidden under his cloak marched unhasting downwards from the direction of the Bank.
Word: ungrudgingly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From ungrudging + -ly. 1. Without a grudge. Example: It is pleasant to acknowledge an obligation when the favour has been bestowed courteously and ungrudgingly. Example: 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.
Word: unhoped Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + hoped. 1. Not hoped for; unexpected. Labels: not-comparable Example: The Prince of peace would like himself confer / A gift unhoped, without the price of war Example: 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.
Word: unhandsomely Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From unhandsome + -ly. 1. In an unhandsome manner. Example: 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. Example: 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.
Word: unmixedly Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From unmixed + -ly. 1. In a way that is not mixed or adulterated; wholly, entirely. Example: 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. Example: Nor was ever any great writer's influence upon his fellows more utterly and unmixedly an influence for good.
Word: unmirthful Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + mirthful. 1. Not mirthful. Example: 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. Example: As she gazed, an unmirthful smile spread over her features, like sunshine that grows melancholy in some desolate spot.
Word: unminded Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + minded. 1. To which no attention is paid; ignored, unheeded. Example: 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. Example: 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." 2. Not wanting to do something; uninclined. Example: […] 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!
Word: ungraced Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + graced. 1. Not graced (by or with something). Labels: not-comparable Example: A cabin with thee in these wilds were better than a palace ungraced by thy presence. Example: 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.
Word: unhopeful Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Middle English unhopful, unhopfulle, equivalent to un- + hopeful. 1. Not hopeful. Example: As a young man, his was a severe and unhopeful mind, and the tendency to despond was increased by circumstances. Example: 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.
Word: unhopeful Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English unhopful, unhopfulle, equivalent to un- + hopeful. 1. Somebody who is unlikely to achieve success or victory.
Word: unguessed Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + guessed. 1. Not guessed. Labels: not-comparable Example: 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. Example: She spoke in wonder, for Patricia had glimpsed an unguessed Rudolph Musgrave.
Word: unimitated Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + imitated. 1. Not imitated. Example: 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. Example: 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.
Word: Websterian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Webster + -ian. 1. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Noah Webster (1758-1843), American lexicographer and spelling reformer. Example: For if "conversationalist" and "experimentalize" are legitimate words, there is no Websterian reason for refusing them such legitimate descendants as Conversationalistic, Conversationalistically, Conversationalisticability[.] 2. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Daniel Webster (1878-1852), American statesman and nationalist.
Word: unjudicial Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + judicial. 1. Not judicial. Example: He began by the very unjudicial act of pledging himself, to himself, that nothing should interfere with this new, this true love. Example: 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.
Word: unmanfully Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From unmanful + -ly. 1. In an unmanful manner. Example: 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. Example: 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.
Word: unmannerliness Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From unmannerly + -ness. 1. The quality of being unmannerly; rudeness. Labels: uncountable Example: 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! Example: 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.
Word: unmanufactured Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + manufactured. 1. Not manufactured. Labels: not-comparable Example: 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. Example: Houses, shops, and buildings of all kinds, produce manufactured and unmanufactured, bridges, ships, railway stations and stock of enormous value will have been destroyed.
Word: unillustrious Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + illustrious. 1. Not illustrious. Example: 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. Example: 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.
Word: uninked Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + inked. 1. Not inked. Labels: not-comparable Example: 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. Example: 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.
Word: unintelligence Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From un- + intelligence. 1. Lack of intelligence. Labels: uncountable, usually Example: 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. Example: 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.
Word: unjoyous Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + joyous. 1. Not joyous. Example: 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. Example: 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.
Word: underexercise Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From under- + exercise. 1. Insufficient exercise. Labels: uncountable
Word: underexercise Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From under- + exercise. 1. To take too little exercise. Labels: intransitive Example: Overeating and underexercising will lead to obesity.
Word: underexercises Part of Speech: verb 1. third-person singular simple present indicative of underexercise Labels: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
Word: underexercising Part of Speech: verb 1. present participle and gerund of underexercise Labels: form-of, gerund, participle, present
Word: unled Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + led. 1. Not led; without guidance or leadership. Labels: not-comparable Example: 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. Example: 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.
Word: ungenially Part of Speech: adv Etymology: From ungenial + -ly. 1. In an ungenial manner. Example: 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[…] Example: 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.
Word: Meredithian Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From Meredith + -ian. 1. Of or pertaining to George Meredith (1828-1909), English poet and novelist.
Word: unmedical Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + medical. 1. Not medical. Example: 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 […] Example: The press […] failed to give the watching world an actual vision of the fullness and vividness, the unmedical life, of the deaf.
Word: unmaterial Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + material. 1. Not material; lacking tangible physical form. Example: Gianluca was a shadow, an unmaterial being, a thought--anything ethereal, but not a man. Example: Yet whether other beings, other presences, unmaterial, imponderable, intangible, did not walk the streets along with them, is open to doubt.
Word: unmacadamized Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + macadamized. 1. Not macadamized. Labels: not-comparable Example: 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. Example: Rare, in these days, was the carriage, or stage-coach for the traveller; / Roads, unmacadamized, making rude havoc of delicate springs.
Word: unloyal Part of Speech: adj Etymology: From un- + loyal. Piecewise doublet of unleal and unlegal. 1. Not loyal. Example: 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. Example: Particularly did the Kaiser call attention to the equivocal and unloyal position of England which had destroyed the hope of a peaceful issue.