Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

unfinal

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: un-fi-nal
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

3

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Not final; unresolved; inconclusive.

Example Sentences

"Huge French Revolutions, Napoleonisms, then Bourbonisms with their corollary of Three Days, finishing in very unfinal Louis-Philippisms: all this ought to be didactic! All this may have taught us, that False Aristocracies are insupportable; that No-Aristocracies, Liberty-and-Equalities are impossible […]"
"So this was suicide. How unfinal it appeared to be."
"This resistance, on the writer's part, could well account for his mildly enigmatic, unfinal and anti-climactic denouements, often narrativised as happy endings of sorts, without actually being felt to be so by the characters, not even ironically."

Etymology

From un- + final.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: un

Inflected Forms

more unfinal (comparative) most unfinal (superlative)

Questions

What does unfinal mean?: Not final; unresolved; inconclusive.
Where does unfinal come from?: From un- + final.

How to pronounce unfinal

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