unmean
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To reverse, cancel, or negate what was intentionally communicated.
Example Sentences
- "The Age of Innocence is based on an Edith Wharton novel and set in the very unmean streets of upper-crust New York, circa 1870."
- "But this whole time, all you've been doing is judging me, making not unmean comments about my new friends, about the guys I'm dating, about how much I drink, go out—everything—as if you don't approve."
- "They are so unmean, so just and so kind."
- "So the tightrope these unmean men must walk drew taut."
- "The play works to unmean meaning by a double dislocation. It uses expectation to undermine expectation both of everyday 'reality' and of theatrical genre."
- "... just as Steinian non-sense derives its power to “unmean” from the rigidly semantic context of most discursive forms"
Etymology
From un- (“not”) + mean.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: un
Inflected Forms
more unmean (comparative)
most unmean (superlative)
unmeans (present, singular)
unmeaning (participle, present)
unmeant (participle, past)
unmeant (past)