Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

unwet

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: un-wet
IPA

8

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Not wet.

verb

To dry, particularly of something that has recently been made wet.

Example Sentences

"Such episodes belonged to the times; and, after all, by making a circuit of six miles he found the Psalter miraculously unwet, and only his worldly pride remained at the lake's bottom."
"[…]Dante, looking out with fear upon the foam and spray and vapour of the flood, saw thousands of the damned flying before the face of one who forded Styx with feet unwet."
"UNWET YOUR PANTS with dry-on-the-fly cargos"

Etymology

From un- + wet.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: un

Inflected Forms

unwets (present, singular) unwetting (participle, present)

Questions

What does unwet mean?: Not wet.
Where does unwet come from?: From un- + wet.

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