untrammelled
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.70 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "Doctrinal prejudices shut you off from the joy of untrammelled thinking, moral prejudices from the joy of untrammelled living."
- "If building a baby is such an intricate cooperative venture, and if every gene needs several thousands of fellow genes to complete its task, how can we reconcile this with my picture of indivisible genes, springing like immortal chamois from body to body down the ages: the free, untrammelled, and self-seeking agents of life?"
- "[T]he laugh ... that enormous, untrammelled, belly-deep sound ..."
- "If we picture ourselves among the huge trunks, the gloom lit with luminescent insects and fungi, and a pervasive stillness and silence broken only by the odd, scurrying creature, we gain some idea of what the untrammelled forests of Europe were like."
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 trammelled English untrammelled From un- + trammelled.
Inflected Forms
more untrammelled (comparative)
most untrammelled (superlative)