unhistorical
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.51 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Not historical; not based on history.
Example Sentences
- "There still faintly beamed from the woman's features something of the freshness, and even the prettiness, of her youth; rendering it probable that the personal charms which Tess could boast of were in main part her mother's gift, and therefore unknightly, unhistorical."
- "If one is a liberal, one hopes that this political consciousness will eventually find less costly forms of expression […] But it would be unhistorical to bemoan the protesters' resort to violence […] Movements of social liberation just don't happen that way, much as we might wish they did."
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- English historical English unhistorical From un- + historical.