Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

unproof

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: un-proof
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Absence or lack of proof or evidence; prooflessness.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

That which is not proven.

Countable; Uncountable

verb

To undo the proofing of; expose to the possibility of failure.

Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"Modern science came to our help in either way of proof or unproof."
"Perhaps anamnesis, remembering forgetting, is another figure of untruth in truth, the unproof, the arbitrariness and unconvincingness, of every proof."
"CONSIDER what it is the inchworm measures with his ridiculous lurch-and-drag walk; he measures his way down the aeons of unproof; he measures nothing that is not a thought of God; he measures his life that it may be shared with all; [...]"
"It is a theory with many unproofs. It has not been demonstrated either theoretically or empirically that time and chance can explain either the universe with its high complexity or man as man."
"[...] but squirrels are smart; they find a way to unproof feeders."

Etymology

From un- (“absence or lack of”) + proof.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: un

Usage

Inflected Forms

unproofs (plural) unproofs (present, singular) unproofing (participle, present) unproofed (participle, past) unproofed (past)

Questions

What does unproof mean?: Absence or lack of proof or evidence; prooflessness.
Where does unproof come from?: From un- (“absence or lack of”) + proof.

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