unadept
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Not adept; unproficient.
Example Sentences
- "And thus for a time I was occupied by exploded systems, mingling, like an unadept, a thousand contradictory theories and floundering desperately in a very slough of multifarious knowledge […]."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European [Term?]der. Proto-Italic *apjō Latin apiō Proto-Indo-European *-sḱéti Proto-Italic *-skō Latin -scō Latin apīscor Latin adipīscor Latin adeptusbor. French adeptebor. English adept English unadept From un- + adept.