ungartered
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Not gartered.
verb
simple past and past participle of ungarter
Example Sentences
- "He is untrussed, unbuttoned, and ungartered, not out of carelessness, but care; his farthest end being but going to bed."
- "Then your hose should be ungartered, your bonnet unbanded, your sleeve unbuttoned, your shoe untied, and everything about you demonstrating a careless desolation.""
- "Happily the table behind which he stood was one of those old-fashioned toilet affairs, with the back part, which was turned toward the door, sheeted over with wood, so that his ungartered stockings and rascally old slippers, were invisible."
Etymology
From un- + gartered.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: un