Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

un-shakespearean

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.87 in modern English

Syllables: un-shake-speare-an
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

15

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Not Shakespearean; not thematically or stylistically like the works of Shakespeare.

Example Sentences

"The cross-fertilization of Elizabethan drama with French symbolism gave rise to the "Princess Maleine", a new species if there ever was one, Shakespearean in form and incident, most un-Shakespearean in everything else."

Etymology

From un- + Shakespearean.

Inflected Forms

more un-Shakespearean (comparative) most un-Shakespearean (superlative) unShakespearean (alternative)

Questions

What does un-shakespearean mean?: Not Shakespearean; not thematically or stylistically like the works of Shakespeare.
Where does un-shakespearean come from?: From un- + Shakespearean.

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