unselfishly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.99 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The brutal insouciance of her fellow immortals — whether her sharp-tongued mother, Perse; or chilly Hermes; or righteous Athena enraged — proves increasingly alien to this thoughtful and compassionate woman who learns to love unselfishly."
Etymology
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 selfish Middle English -ly English -ly English unselfishly From un- + selfish + -ly.
Inflected Forms
more unselfishly (comparative)
most unselfishly (superlative)