Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

unthing

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: un-thing
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Something irrelevant or inconsequential; a non-issue; an absurdity.

Example Sentences

"They made a thing of an unthing and put it on paper."
"Whether or not PPB is an unthing in the federal bureaucracy, the budgetary concepts that are represented by it and its conceptual predecessors are still viable within OMB: control, management, and planning."
"This hidden heart essence, so secret, An unthing untouched by the eterne […]"
"It does not follow from either the metaphor or the possibility of defining this space mathematically that it must be Leibniz's dreaded unthing “unthing” – a something that is nothing."

Etymology

Calque of German Unding, equivalent to un- + thing. Compare also West Frisian ûnding, Dutch onding.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: un-

Inflected Forms

unthings (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

thingly nonperson unperson nonplace unplace nonthing

Synonyms

nothingburger

Questions

What does unthing mean?: Something irrelevant or inconsequential; a non-issue; an absurdity.
Where does unthing come from?: Calque of German Unding, equivalent to un- + thing. Compare also West Frisian ûnding, Dutch onding.

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