disinvite
/ˌdɪsɪnˈvaɪt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.47 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Near-synonym: uninvite (see notes)"
- "[B]eing the next morning assured by the Prince himself that the Maske was to be put off till Sunday the ninth of January [1625], I was, upon his Highnesse intimation, sent to disinvite them all, which I performed with the French personally, and with the rest by letter; but on Saturday re-invited them for the next day."
- "[I]t is a task of ſo long ſtudy that a great part of a man's life vvould be ſpent in a vveariſome and hopeleſs endeavour to come to Faith by this tedious method; vvhich vvould both diſinvite to a purſuit; and even a diligent man may in likelihood die ere he could rationally embrace any Faith at all."
- "[M]y Lady vvould not revoke—my Lord vvould not ſubmit—the Royallies vvere to be diſinvited this morning; […]"
- "[T]he chief of the police did not see his way to providing an escort sufficiently large to conduct a party some five and twenty strong, […] So the project was abandoned, and the "disinvited" guests assembled on the upper deck of their steamer to console themselves by viewing the arrival and reception of the Khedive from that excellent vantage-ground."
- "[T]his amendment fails to meet the criteria of sound and conservative legislation. First, it disinvites and discourages local initiative and secondly, without benefit of proper hearings on such a complex question, it changes the entire experience of Federal Indian law in one fell swoop."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌdɪsɪnˈvaɪt/
- British English: /ˌdɪsɪnˈvaɪt/
Usage
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Synonyms
uninvite[