unstirred
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.09 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Not stirred or emotionally excited.
verb
simple past and past participle of unstir
Example Sentences
- "Who, in after years, could supply a mother's place to the bereaved child, in whom affection's sweetest fountain must remain for ever unstirred?"
- "Inadventurous, unstirred by impulses of practical ambition, I was capable of sitting twenty years teaching infants the hornbook, turning silk dresses and making children's frocks."
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 stirred English unstirred From un- + stirred.
Inflected Forms
more unstirred (comparative)
most unstirred (superlative)