unproud
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Not proud.
Example Sentences
- "When he jeers at the British public who 'love me not,' it is with an air more jaunty than bitter, as of a. man not half-displeased to be above his audience, nor quite unproud of that distinction—sentiments which no audience is likely to approve of."
- "Listen, thou child I used to be! / Unproud I move, and yet unbowed, / Where thou wast fed with vanity, / Thy chiefest pride — thou wast not proud!"
- "Arthur would spot Dose coming a mile off on the street and pull his wallet out, stuff a five-spot into his palm for their handclasp when they collided, pity money Dose had become too unproud to refuse."
Etymology
From un- + proud.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: un
Inflected Forms
more unproud (comparative)
most unproud (superlative)