unadorn
/ˌʌnədˈɔɹn/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To remove the adornments from.
Example Sentences
- "No ugly monument of their ancestors disfigures the church walls, no hideous brick box unadorns the country churchyard, and a plain stone, perhaps moss grown, is all the record of their fathers they can show."
- "In connection with this splendid record I want to point a moral (though it will unadorn the tale), for I recently heard a city man say in a public meeting: “Why, these dairymen are getting rich. They have cows that will make a thousand pounds of butter in a year and look what they get for butter.”"
- "Sanchez glosses Garrula quo comix with the familiar warning against female loquacity — "silence adorns virgins, chattering unadorns them""
- "Yet, I have long tried to unadorn Myself for you. I would toss all the trinkets And lavalieres into a box to escape Worshiping."
- "He alerts them to every conceivable pitfall, unadorns them of every emotional bias, slices through every pie in the sky as if it's lemon meringue."
- "I will unadorn my neck Tugging away the heavy priceless pearls that have hung around my neck and leave my almost invisible neck bare"
Etymology
From un- + adorn.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: un