ungood
/ˌʌnˈɡʊd/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.01 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "An unjust judge, as one well observes, is a cold fire, a dark sun, a dry sea, a mare mortuum, an ungood god, contradictio in adjecto, monsters, not men, much less gods."
- "Now to make a short story shorter, we all know this is very ungood for a new motor and I do not want to thank the person or persons who unwittingly left their fingerprints, of which I have photostatic copies, so that might detect the presence of graphite before staring the motor."
- "What I was before wasn't good for me. But it was from that ungood that I put together something better: I had put together hope. From my own ungood I had created a future good."
- "“Way ungood guys, way ungood.”"
- "And remember! Islam is ungood; atheism, file sharing, civil liberties and homosexuality are doubleplusungood."
- "This man is very, very ungood."
Etymology
From Middle English ungod, from Old English ungōd, equivalent to un- (“not”) + good (adjective). Popularised by its appearance in Newspeak, a fictional language coined in Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), a dystopian novel by George Orwell.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /ˌʌnˈɡʊd/