Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

unbidding

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
un-bid-ding
IPA
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Not bidding

Etymology

From Middle English unbiddende, from Old English unbiddende, from Proto-Germanic *unbidjandz (“not asking”), equivalent to un- + bidding.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

more unbidding (comparative) most unbidding (superlative)

Questions

What does unbidding mean?
Not bidding
Where does unbidding come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

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