unkindly
/ʌnˈkaɪndli/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.99 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Not kindly.
Example Sentences
- "Preceded by the beadle, and attended by an irregular procession of stern-browed men and unkindly visaged women, Hester Prynne set forth towards the place appointed for her punishment."
- "[…] she had seen a not unkindly wink pass between the two."
- "From this superfluous pulp in unkindely, and wet years, may arise that multiplicity of little insects, which infest the Roots and Sprouts of tender Graines and pulses."
- "Unkindly cold and tempest shrill / In life’s morn oft the traveller chill,"
- "That detestable sight him much amazde, / To see th’vnkindly Impes of heauen accurst, / Deuoure their dam;"
- "1678, Robert Sanderson, Nine Cases of Conscience Occasionally Determined, London: H. Brome et al., p. 128, […] the want of mercy in a Father, is more unkindly, more unseemly, more unnatural than in another man […]"
Etymology
From Middle English unkyndely, from Old English unġecyndelīċ; equivalent to un- + kindly (adjective).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Usage
Inflected Forms
more unkindly (comparative)
most unkindly (superlative)