unweather
/ʌnˈwɛðə(ɹ)/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The composition of the following note did not occupy him half an hour: — Major von Wismar lets himself a thousand times be greased, and fears him the unweather shall defend for to day the premeditated walk on horseback, which Madame ― graciously vowed him for half three of the hour."
- "The strangers would then have been only too gladly drenched to the skin that they might have hugged their wagered souls in the belief that this unweather was of Nature, and not of the Evil One. But the Heavens shed no tear."
- "Waiting for the weather, or the unweather. Well, we got here: gotta climb something now."
- "I sprayed the underbody with Floquil's Grimy black and also gave the sides, ends and roof a light coat of this color. This was followed by Floquil's Zinc Chromate primer mixed with about 20 percent glaze to “unweather” the car and provide a base color suitable for decal application."
- "An unbendable form dries worthless, brittle, only fire unweathers cochineal mud."
- "Occupy Sandy and other grassroots organizations work to “unweather” Sandy, to move it away from a weather-based event and toward an incident that exacerbated and made preexisting crises more apparent."
Etymology
Likely a calque of Middle English unweder, Old English unweder (“bad weather; storm”) or Germanic cognates such as Saterland Frisian Uunweeder, Dutch onweer, German Low German Unweer, German Unwetter, and Danish uvejr, Swedish oväder, Icelandic óveður. In any case, equivalent to un- (negative) + weather.
Usage
Inflected Forms
unwether (alternative, obsolete)
unweathers (present, singular)
unweathering (participle, present)
unweathered (participle, past)
unweathered (past)