ungrandmotherly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
5
Syllables
13
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Not grandmotherly.
Example Sentences
- "Left without a mother in his infancy—perhaps that was what prevented him from achieving the highest fame as an author—his father placed him with a grandmother, who, in a singularly ungrandmotherly way, cheated him out of the appropriations for his education."
- "Here, therefore, we have Mrs Wimbush, a comely widow, with a daughter somewhat prematurely developed, on the one hand, and with a mother persistently juvenile and evergreen, on the other: Mrs Wimbush and her daughter Carry living together in Whittington Lodge, Highgate; Mrs Marrables, the youthful and the ungrandmotherly, dwelling by herself at Taunton, and devoting her time to collecting subscriptions for different charitable objects, not forgetting her own rents."
- "She stood with her back to the fireplace, looking very ungrandmotherly in her tailored slacks and silk sweater."
- "She had never known her grandmother, on either side, and when she was little she was a bit resentful that Theresa was such a drastically ungrandmotherly type."
Etymology
From un- + grandmotherly.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: un
Inflected Forms
more ungrandmotherly (comparative)
most ungrandmotherly (superlative)