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unglad

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
unglad
IPA
8
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Not glad; unhappy, joyless.

Etymology

From Middle English unglad, from Old English unglæd, from Proto-West Germanic *unglad, from Proto-Germanic *ungladaz, equivalent to un- + glad. Cognate with Saterland Frisian uunglääd, West Frisian ûnglêd, Dutch onglad, German Low German ungladd, German unglatt, Danish uglad, Swedish oglad, Icelandic óglaður.

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Prefix: un-
  • Root: unglad, unglæd, *unglad, *ungladaz

Inflected Forms

more unglad (comparative) most unglad (superlative)

Derived Forms

ungladly ungladness

Questions

What does unglad mean?
Not glad; unhappy, joyless.
Where does unglad come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

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