unprovokingly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
Without giving provocation.
Example Sentences
- "That lady was with her in her last illness, and it was discovered after her death, that the whole of her large fortune was bequeathed to the interesting mother and daughter whose characters she had heard so unprovokingly assailed."
Etymology
From unprovoking + -ly.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more unprovokingly (comparative)
most unprovokingly (superlative)