unmarriageable
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.12 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Not marriageable, unsuitable for marriage.
adj
That cannot be reconciled, inconsistent.
Example Sentences
- "You have always had a little way of alluding to her as an unmarriageable girl."
- "He had a way of pronouncing the word "miss" that made it an epithet, a sneer at her unmarried and unmarriageable state."
- "A link was wanting between two craving parts of nature, and he was hurled into being as the bridge over that yawning need, the mediator betwixt two else unmarriageable facts."
- "[…] which is a very curious cross between two things that at first sight may seem unmarriageable, the Wordsworthian enthusiasm and the Byronic despair."
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 marriage Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English marriageable English unmarriageable From un- + marriageable.
Inflected Forms
more unmarriageable (comparative)
most unmarriageable (superlative)