unmilitary
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.08 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Not military.
Example Sentences
- "The Indian military system is full of unmilitary anomalies, all productive of irresponsibility and undiscipline."
- "National Guards and Soldiers of the line […] fall into disorderly street-processions, constitutional unmilitary exclamations and hurrahings."
- "Tragedy developed affinities with civic ideals of restraint, manly control, and heroic discipline, but comedy, and in particular the comic body, developed affinities with anticivic excess, sexual abandon, and unmilitary, antiathletic slackness."
Etymology
From un- + military.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: un
Inflected Forms
more unmilitary (comparative)
most unmilitary (superlative)