uncrisp
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Not crisp.
adj
Not crisp.
Example Sentences
- "[…] if a second crop was taken from the same ground without fertilizing it, the melons would be small and what we called soapy; that is, soft and smooth, utterly uncrisp, and without a trace of the lively freshness and sweetness of those raised on virgin soil."
- "[…] from time to time a sort of unhealthy almost-light leaked from the large uncrisp corpse of the sky, returning for a moment to our view the ruined landscape."
- "His light brown hair fell, in thin, uncrisp locks, about his white, prominent temples,"
- "[The] metal [of the coach], jouncing on the track, massaged his behind and his pants, uncrisping, were as wet from the mangy dog as from the sweat pouring out between his legs."
- "When his miserable life is over they lay him out—that is, they pull his legs, and try to uncrisp his fingers,"
- "She also lay white and twisting on a couch, crisping and uncrisping her little hands."
Etymology
From un- + crisp.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: un
Usage
Inflected Forms
more uncrisp (comparative)
most uncrisp (superlative)
uncrisps (present, singular)
uncrisping (participle, present)
uncrisped (participle, past)
uncrisped (past)