Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

unget

/ʌnˈɡɛt/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: unget
IPA: /ʌnˈɡɛt/

6

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

1

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

The opposite action of get (in various senses)

Transitive verb

verb

The opposite action of get (in various senses)

Transitive verb

Example Sentences

"I'll diſovvn you, I'll diſinherit you, I'll unget you!"
"He felt himself in the position that having got the conviction he did not see how he was to unget it."
"One senses from the paintings that followed his first explosion of production that he hoped to unget the hang of something he'd just gotten the hang of, to whittle down even further his self-professed paucity of conceptual and manual means."

Etymology

From un- + get; compare unbeget, Middle English ungeten (“unbegotten; not won; not captured”).

Usage

Transitive verb

Inflected Forms

ungets (present, singular) ungetting (participle, present) ungot (past) ungot (participle, past) ungotten (participle, past)

Questions

How do you pronounce unget?: The recorded pronunciation is /ʌnˈɡɛt/.
What does unget mean?: The opposite action of get (in various senses)
Where does unget come from?: From un- + get; compare unbeget, Middle English ungeten (“unbegotten; not won; not captured”).

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