unworksome
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Not worksome; not diligent or work-intensive.
Example Sentences
- "[…] but then, again, the accumulation of much capital with fathers will tend to kill a lively piety of thankfulness in their children, and sometimes make them unworksome and vicious spendthrifts."
Etymology
From un- + worksome. Compare German unwirksam (“ineffective, useless”), Swedish overksam (“inactive, passive, ineffective”).
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: un
Inflected Forms
more unworksome (comparative)
most unworksome (superlative)