unsmall
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Bill parked at a drive-in beside a big Buick. Its lone occupant, an unsmall woman, looked over and down at the sardined Simea, and grinned broadly."
- "Jeremy Kagan, twenty-six, is proud owner of a Harvard degree (Phi Beta Kappa), a beard (brown and bushy), and an unsmall ego (amply justified)."
- "Another option is to save receipts and obtain a refund at the airport, although the commission charged is unsmall."
- "The voltage may be only a few hundred mV, but a thermocouple can deliver lots of current. Your preconceived notion that unsmall voltage is required to drive electromagnetic devices is wrong. In fact, solenoid coils can be configured for a wide range of voltages by changing the wire guage and turns count."
- "Procol Harum, who never got their royalties for 'A Whiter Shade Of Pale' — they were swizzed out of an unsmall fortune — might be forgiven for wanting to cash in on the pop memory boom."
Etymology
From un- + small.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: un-
Usage
Inflected Forms
more unsmall (comparative)
most unsmall (superlative)