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unright

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
un-right
IPA
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

That which is not right; wrong; injustice.

Archaic; Uncountable

verb

To make wrong.

Transitive verb

adj

wrong

adv

Wrongly.

Archaic; Obsolete

Etymology

From Middle English unright, unriȝt, unriht, from Old English unriht (“wrong, sin, vice, wickedness, evil, injustice, oppression, a wrong act”), equivalent to un- (“absence of”) + right. Cognate with Scots unricht (“wrongdoing, injustice”), Dutch onrecht (“injustice, inequity, wrong”), German Unrecht (“injustice”), Swedish orätt (“injustice, wrong, sin”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Prefix: un
  • Root: *h₃reǵ-, unright, unriht, unrighten, unrihte

Usage

Inflected Forms

unrights (plural) unrights (present, singular) unrighting (participle, present) unrighted (participle, past) unrighted (past) more unright (comparative) most unright (superlative)

Derived Forms

unrightness

Questions

What does unright mean?
That which is not right; wrong; injustice.
Where does unright come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

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