Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

unimpress

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: unim-press
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

Too fail to impress positively; to leave very little impression or a bad impression;

Example Sentences

"'Twas on a morning, ere the Spring Had quickened ev'ry mortal thing, Within a place where students bring Their stomachs pranky, heads not full, Fresh as the sod, and raw from school ; To gather aids from dusty books Which unimpress their varied looks."
"Thinking it now more important to impress Julia than it was to unimpress Charles, Chad smoothed the sleeves of his new light-blue shirt, then bent to make certain the pant legs of his black trousers fell smoothly over his new boots."
"... and that the court was "therefore unimpressed by Mr Gill's assertion that incidents of this kind are deviant behaviour and an aberration on the part of individual members of the force." But there was more to unimpress the Supreme Court."
"But today, Maria wanted us to meet her new and slightly older boyfriend, Walter, who seemed to thoroughly unimpress her, so I wasn't sure why we were here."

Etymology

From un- + impress or back formation from unimpressed.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: un

Inflected Forms

unimpresses (present, singular) unimpressing (participle, present) unimpressed (participle, past) unimpressed (past)

Questions

What does unimpress mean?: Too fail to impress positively; to leave very little impression or a bad impression;
Where does unimpress come from?: From un- + impress or back formation from unimpressed.

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