unillustrious
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Not illustrious.
Example Sentences
- "The "Metropolitans" followed the example of many unillustrious predecessors, though it must, in justice, be added, that they would have been shocked to hear anyone impute to them a want of originality in their curious methods."
- "One has known actors, far from unillustrious, who staked their whole performance on some such learned triviality or some trifling novelty of business, when, for example, in Hamlet's scene with his mother, the prince comes to: Look here upon this picture, and on this."
Etymology
From un- + illustrious.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: un
Inflected Forms
more unillustrious (comparative)
most unillustrious (superlative)