unpunctual

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.33 in modern English

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adj

"Jim was so unpunctual — always late!"
"Indeed, the only unpunctual trains appear to be some of the International ones, and with these, if they are likely to be over an hour late reaching the frontier-station, the Swiss run their own train over the route provided the International express was being used for inter-communication with Switzerland."

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English punctual English unpunctual From un- + punctual.

unpunctually unpunctualness

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