unground
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.16 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Not having been ground; unpulverized.
Example Sentences
- "A bit of unground wheat in flour can really hurt when you bite it: another reason to sift."
- "If you unground the extension cord it will cause a shock hazard in that drill."
- "We'll consider ungrounding you when you can act your age."
- "I just had to make John promise not to do anything "bad" at the CYO dance. He was just ungrounded."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- Proto-Indo-European *gʰrem- Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *grunduz Old English grund Middle English ground English ground English unground From un- + ground.