unseamanlike
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Not characteristic of or befitting a seaman.
Example Sentences
- "On behalf of the Dundee, it was deposed, that the loss of the Princess Charlotte was purely accidental, or if attributable to any mismanagement, attributable only to the unseamanlike conduct of the Princess Charlotte's own people[…]"
- "If he is able to keep clear only by making an unseamanlike manoeuvre, then your tack was too close."
Etymology
From un- + seamanlike.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: un
Inflected Forms
more unseamanlike (comparative)
most unseamanlike (superlative)