ungentle
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.12 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Showing a lack of gentleness, kindness or compassion.
Example Sentences
- "[…] Moyses lawe, thoughe it were vngentle and sharpe […] yet it punnyshed thefte by the purse, and not wyth deathe."
- "You haue deceiu'd our truſt, / And made vs doffe our eaſie roabes of peace, / To cruſh our old limbs in vngentle ſteele, / This is not vvell my Lord, this is not vvell."
- "[A] well-conceived squabble arises, and very ungentle terms ensue: […]"
- "At length, however, the boisterous pastime terminated—suddenly, as might be expected: the little one was hurt and began to cry; and its ungentle playfellow tossed it into its mother’s lap, bidding her “make all straight.”"
- "About John Marin, there move sad, disgruntled beings, full of talk and lamentations. [...] They bewail the fact that in America, soil is poor and unconducive to growth, and men remain unmoved by growing green. But Marin persists, and what ebullience and good humour, in the rocky ungentle loam?"
- "Dagh Sahib, a woman by herself—what place can she find in an ungentle world?"
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English gentle English ungentle From un- + gentle.