uncontending
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Not contending.
Example Sentences
- "In him I see a strong human creature, contending with all hardship: in you also a human creature, uncontending, and possibly not strong."
- "His judgment was penetrating and manly, totally unmixed with imbecility and confusion, while at the same time there was such an uncontending frankness in his countenance, that a superficial observer would have supposed he must have been the prey of the first plausible knavery that was practised against him."
Etymology
From un- + contending.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: un
Inflected Forms
more uncontending (comparative)
most uncontending (superlative)