Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

unpurchased

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: un-pur-chased
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Not purchased by anybody; unsold.

Example Sentences

"The unpurchased books were pulped."
"There breathes no being but has some pretence / To that fine instinct called poetic sense; […] / The freeman, casting with unpurchased hand / The vote that shakes the turrets of the land."

Etymology

From un- + purchased.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: un
Root: *keh₂p-

Synonyms

nonpurchased

Questions

What does unpurchased mean?: Not purchased by anybody; unsold.
Where does unpurchased come from?: From un- + purchased.

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