unmeetly
/ʌnˈmiːtli/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In an unmeet way; unbecomingly.
Example Sentences
- "they met / With a faire Mayden clad in mourning weed, / Upon a mangy jade unmeetely set […]"
- "Yet there are noble passages in his later poems: and even the latest have their own peculiar charm of serenity and kindliness,—a tranquil sunset, as it were, succeeding not unmeetly to the fiery splendours of his noontide course."
Etymology
From unmeet + -ly.
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /ʌnˈmiːtli/
Inflected Forms
more unmeetly (comparative)
most unmeetly (superlative)