Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

unpristine

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: un-pris-tine
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Not pristine; sullied, dirty, impure.

Example Sentences

"The subject of all this breathlessness is a decidedly unpristine swath of Staten Island known as Arlington Marsh, a boggy green break in one of the city's most industrialized stretches of waterfront."

Etymology

From un- + pristine.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: un

Inflected Forms

more unpristine (comparative) most unpristine (superlative)

Questions

What does unpristine mean?: Not pristine; sullied, dirty, impure.
Where does unpristine come from?: From un- + pristine.

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