Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

unbritish

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: unbri-tish
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Not British, or not living up to what is supposed or expected of the British.

Example Sentences

"Apart from the fact that the latter alternative is un-British, and an undesirable system, the dairying community, as a whole, is in no better position."
"Anxieties about the general economic and political decline of Britain became projected onto black youth, the image of the unBritish black 'immigrant' […]"
"In a perfect world no Londoner will be misguided enough to vote for extreme parties, but what would be far more sensible would be put the genie of proportional representation, an imported Continental invention and decidedly unbritish, back in the bottle and keep our traditional election system."
"Here Pearson (1983) was at pains to bring a historical perspective to the apparently new and by definition unBritish crime of 'mugging' […]"

Etymology

From un- + British.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: un

Inflected Forms

more unBritish (comparative) most unBritish (superlative) un-British (alternative)

Questions

What does unbritish mean?: Not British, or not living up to what is supposed or expected of the British.
Where does unbritish come from?: From un- + British.

How to pronounce unbritish

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