ungained
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Not gained.
adj
Not gained.
adj
Not gained.
adj
Not gained.
adj
Not gained.
Example Sentences
- "Men prize the thing ungained more than it is;"
- "The streams run on, in bold, malicious haste, His lip can touch the fruit, but cannot taste; In vain he struggles from his chain to burst The stream, the fruit's ungained—unquenched his thirst!"
- "To refer to something ungained seems impossible in an ordinary way, but we can simulate the time evolution by the method called "generate-and-search"."
- "ungained advantage"
- "ungained heights"
- "He fancied four of his children stood there, hand in hand, and stared at him rather mournfully; and that Dorothy was that statue with the fingers of its right hand on the top bar of the tapestry-seated chair which was in fact the commode Titball had provided. A commode as yet ungained."
Etymology
From un- + gained.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: un