unmade
/ənmˈeɪd/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.40 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
simple past and past participle of unmake
Example Sentences
- "On the most unmade bed imaginable sat two older Jewish men, both with black coats folded across their knees, bent close to each other […]."
- "[E]ven when it turned off the unmade road and went steeply upwards along an even more unmade track, I was still exhilarated […]."
- "It was an unexpected benefit to early rail investors that passengers had an appetite for travel, which up to then had been a tortuous experience on largely unmade roads and involving stays at coaching inns that provided variable amenities."
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 made English unmade From un- + made.
Usage
- British usage
Inflected Forms
more unmade (comparative)
most unmade (superlative)