Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

unlittle

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: un-lit-tle
IPA

8

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Example Sentences

"And so their little private lists of links became a rather unlittle shared list of links which they christened (gotta call it something) “Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web.”"
"“And you're unlittle,” chimed Tira. “Very unlittle.”"

Etymology

From Middle English unlitel, unnlitell, from Old English unlȳtel, unlytel (“not little, large, great”), from Proto-West Germanic *unlutil (“not little”), equivalent to un- + little. Cognate with Old High German unluzzil (“excessive, inordinate”), Old Norse úlítill (“not little”).

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Prefix: un-
Root: unlitel, unlȳtel, *unlutil

Inflected Forms

more unlittle (comparative) most unlittle (superlative)

Synonyms

big great large

Questions

What does unlittle mean?: Not little.
Where does unlittle come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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