Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

unsweet

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.44 in modern English

Syllables: unsweet
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

1

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Not sweet.

Example Sentences

"That each, who seems a separate whole, ⁠Should move his rounds, and fusing all ⁠The skirts of self again, should fall Remerging in the general Soul, Is faith as vague as all unsweet: […]"
"Again I sank in that repose unsweet, Again a clashing noise my slumber rent; […]"

Etymology

From Middle English unswete, from Old English unswēte (“unsweet; bitter; sour”), from Proto-West Germanic *unswōtī, from Proto-Germanic *unswōtuz (“unsweet”), equivalent to un- + sweet. Cognate with West Frisian ûnswiet (“unsweet”), Dutch onzoet (“unsweet”), German Low German unsööt (“unsweet”), German unsüß (“unsweet”), Swedish osöt (“unsweet”), Icelandic ósætur (“unsweet”).

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Prefix: un
Root: unswete, unswēte, *unswōtī, *unswōtuz

Inflected Forms

more unsweet (comparative) most unsweet (superlative)

Derived Forms

unsweetly

Phrases

unsweet tea

Synonyms

unsweetened nonsweet unsugared sec

Antonyms

sweet sugared

Questions

What does unsweet mean?: Not sweet.
Where does unsweet come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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