unpartnered
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Without a partner.
Example Sentences
- "The novelist Anita Brookner, a shrewder handicapper of the luck of unpartnered women, tested that proposition in her Booker Prize-winning 1984 novel “Hotel du Lac,” in which a bloodless man tries to bully a woman into settling for him."
- "[…]all of the growth in the unpartnered population since 1990 has come from a rise in the number who have never been married."
Etymology
From un- + partnered.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: un