Old English | n | Modern English |
Unbacked | adj | Of horses: unmounted; untrained. 2. not backed or supported, not endorsed. 3. not furnished with a back or backing. 4. not backed by betting. 5. (fig.) unsupported. |
Unbaked | adj | Of tiles, not baked in a kiln; not exposed to heat. 2. of bread, not prepared by heating. 3. fig. left in an unfinished or immature state; inchoate. |
Unbaleful | adj | Harmless, not evil, unwoeful. 2. good, not wicked, unwicked. |
Unbare | vb | To uncover, strip, lay bare. 2. expose to view. |
Unbathed | adj | Unwashed, unclean, dirty. 2. not bathed, dry. |
Unbe | vb | Not to be; to be non-existent. 2. to make non-existent. 2. to deprive of being. |
Unbeamed | adj | Unplanked; without supporting beams, devoid of trees. 2. without shafts of light, darkish, lightless. |
Unbear | vb | Not able to withstand, endure or tolerate. 2. to loosen the bearing rein on a horse. |
Unbear | adj | Impatient, intolerant. |
Unbearded | adj | That which is without a beard; clean-shaven. 2. of persons, not having a beard; clean-shaven. 3. of plants, not furnished with a bristles or hairy tufts, awnless. |
Unbearing | adj | Infertile, unproductive, barren. |
Unbeaten | adj | Not beaten or struck; not pounded; not broken up or soften by pounding. 2. not subdued or beaten down or trodden down. 3. not conquered or defeated. 4. not suffered defeat on the sporting field. 6. not scoured for game during a hunt. |
Unbecome | vb | To fail to become or suit. 2. to be unbecoming. |
Unbecomed | adj | Unadorned, simple and plain, |
Unbecomely | adv | Unsuitably. 2. not becoming or befitting, unsuitable, improper, unworthy. |
Unbecoming | pp | Not becoming, unsuitable; improper. |
Unbecomingly | adv | In a manner or way unsuitable, improper, unbefittingly. |
Unbecomingness | n | The state or quality of unsuitability, impropriety, unfitness. |
Unbedewed | adj | Softened by the settling dew of morning. |
Unbedimmed | adj | Not in any way bright or light, darkish or darkening. |
Unbefitting | adj | Not suitable, proper or becoming. |
Unbefittingness | n | The state or condition of being unsuitable, improper, unfit. |
Unbefriended | adj | Without friends; friendless; all alone. |
Unbeget | vb | To annul or undo the begetting of. |
Unbeginning | n | Having no beginning or commencement; without beginning. |
Unbeginngness | n | The state or quality of having no beginning or commencement. |
Unbegirt | vb | To uncover or unsurround. |
Unbegotten | adj | Ungenerated, unborn, without beginning. 2. not yet begotten. 3. of God, existing independent of natural causes; eternal. |
Unbegraved | adj | Unburied, uninterred, unentombed. |
Unbegun | adj | That had no beginning or ever-existed. 2. not yet begun, not commence or started; without beginning.. |
Unbeheld | adj | Not yet or unconceived in the mind, as the unbeheld splendour of heaven. 2. unseen or unimagined. |
Unbeheve | adj | Disadvantageous, unprofitable. |
Unbeholding | adj | Not obligated or beholding to another. |
Unbeholdness | n | State or condition of not being under obligation to another. |
Unbehoving | adj | Not requiring or needful of one's action in a matter. |
Unbeing | n | The state of absence, non-existence or the lack of being |
Unbekend | adj | Unknown. |
Unbeknown | adj | Not known; without the knowledge of. 2. lying outside of one's knowledge or acquaintance. 3. without knowledge of. |
Unbelie | vb | To not be false or tell a lie. |
Unbelief | n | In matters of religion: absence or lack of religious belief; disbelief, incredulity. |
Un-belief-ful | adj | Unbelieving, wanting in belief, incredible. |
Un-belief-fulness | n | Unbelievableness; state or condition of total belief in religion. |
Unbelieve | vb | To disbelieve, to give up belief in; discard or abandon belief. |
Unbelieved | adj | Disbelieved; not believed; disbelieving. |
Unbeliever | n | One who withholds belief. 2. one who has no faith. 3. one having a religion different from that of the speaker or writer. |
Unbelieving | n | The action of not believing; disbelief; an instance of disbelief. |
Unbelieving | adj | Not giving to or having belief in, esp. in religious matters or belief; incredulous, perfidious. |
Unbelievingness | n | State or quality of not being. |
Unbeloved | adj | "The Unbeloved" - not loved, unloved, liked or adored. 2. scorned and rejected, not beloved of a woman or women. |
Unbelt | vb | To ungird. 2. to detach or remove a sword by unfastening the belt. |
Unbelted | adj | Without a belt; not wearing a belt or a seat belt in a motor vehicle. |
Unbend | vb | To release or relax a bow from tension. 2. to uncock a firearm. 3. to unstring something. 4. to slacken or weaken; give relaxation to. 5. free from serious occupation. 6. unfasten, untie, undo a cable, line etc. 7. to allow or cause (the brow) to relax from a serious, severe or frowning aspect. 8. to straighten from a bent or curved position; to unfold. 9. to abandon an effort or attempt to free oneself from constraint or ceremony; to do in an unconstrained or genial manner, to relax one's seriousness or severity. 10. to alter from a bend or curve; to become straight or less curved. |
Unbended | adj | A relaxed, not curved or bent position. 2. free from serious or severe state. |
Unbending | adj | Incapable of adapting or changing to meet circumstances; as an
unbending will, inflexible, rigid. 2. not bending; not suffering flexure; not yielding to pressure; stiff; -- applied to material things. 3. unyielding in will; not subject to persuasion or influence; inflexible; resolute; -- applied to persons.4. unyielding in nature; unchangeable; fixed; -- applied to abstract ideas; as, unbending truths. 5. devoted to relaxation or amusement. |
Unbendingness | n | The state or quality of being unbending; unyielding; inflexible, rigid, resolute, fixed, unchangeable. |
Unbe-ness | n | Non-existence; the state of non-existence. |
Unbenight | vb | To free from night, darkness or obscurity. |
Unbenighted | adj | Not benighted. 2. enlightened intellectually or morally. |
Unbent | adj | Not bowed or curved; straightened; free from bending. 2. released from a bent state like a bow. 3. not wrinkled or knit. 4. not subdued or subservient. |
Unbequeathed | adj | Not uttered, declared, assigned (property) by will. |
Unbereaved | adj | Not suffering the pain of bereavement. |
Unbereft | adj | Old English bereafian "to deprive of, take away, seize, rob," from be + reafian "rob, plunder," Since mid-17c., mostly in reference to life, hope, loved ones, and other immaterial possessions. Past tense "bereft" now applies to circumstances. |
Unberried | pp | Of peas: shelled; of currants: stripped from stalks; of fruits: plucked. |
Unberthed | adj | Unboarded. 2. not yet reaching it's destination or moorings. |
Unbeseen | adj | Unobserved, secretly. 2. unprovided, destitute, devoid of. |
Un-be-seen-ness | n | Heedlessness; want of any care. |
Unbeset | adj | Unbestowed or unapportioned. |
Unbeset | vb | To free from dullness or stupidity. |
Unbesought | adj | Not ardently sought out, desired or pursued. |
Unbespeak | vb | To countermand; to cancel an order, booking or request for a service etc. |
Unbespoken | adj | Not yet ordered, arranged, or engaged. |
Unbestowed | adj | Not yet bestowed or given; or yet to be bestowed or given. |
Unbet | adj | OE: ungebet: unamended; unchanged, staying as is. |
Unbeteared | adj | Without or devoid of tears. |
Unbethought | adj | Unpremeditated; without pretext; unintentiontally; unexpectedly. 2. unthought of; unrealized. |
Unbetide | vb | To fail to happen; not occurring, not eventuating. |
Unbetoken | vb | To not be a signal for or a symptom of; to not indicate, or point to. 2. not to indicate by signs; not bode, not portend, not omen, not presage, not foreshadow, not augur, not foretell, not forecast or predict. 3. to not signify by some visible object; to not show by signs or tokens. 4. to not foreshow by present signs; to not indicate something future by that which is seen or known. |
Unbethrothe | vb | To not promise to take in marriage; to uninengage, to unplight. 2. to end or revoke the contract to any one for a marriage; to un-inengage or break or end the promise of marriage. 3. to no longer promise to take (as a future spouse); to end the plight of one's troth to. 4. to no longer nominate to a bishopric, in order to consecration. |
Unbettered | adj | Not made better; not improved. |
Unbeware | adv | Unaware, unbewares, not alert to. |
Unbewed | adj | Unmarried, nubile, unwed |
Unbewilder | vb | Not make one bewilder; not bewildered. |
Unbewitch | vb | To deliver from witchcraft; see free from witchcraft. 2. to disenchant. |
Unbidden | adj | Not invited; unpremeditated. 2. not spontaneous, not called forth, unasked; not ordered or commanded; 3. not asked or summoned; uninvited. |
Unbidden | phr | "Unbidden thoughts" - unspontaneous. |
Unbind | vb | To free from a bond, tie, make loose by unbonding a band; unfasten, untie or loosen; to open up or out; set free; detach. 2. free from sin ot its consequences; to absolve. 3. to set free, deliver, cure from sickness or trouble. 4. to make free, or release from legal restraint or obligation. 5. to give up an enterprise. 6. to restore personal liberty. 7. to clear of phlegm. 8. to dissolve, undo, destroy. 9. to aid the natural flux of the bowels. |
Unbinding | adj | Not binding; esp. having no binding force, invalid. 2. loosening, dissolving. |
Unbirthday | n | Any day but one's birthday. |
Unbishop | vb | Deprive of the rank of bishop. |
Unbitten | adj | Not bitten. 2. (slang) not enthusiastic; without enthusiasm. |
Unbiwene | adj | Unexpected. |
Unbleached | adj | Not bleached; having its natural color. |
Unblenched | adj | Not dismayed. |
Unbless | vb | State of being unblessed or loosing the blessing of God or some one dear to you. |
Unblessed | adj | Not blessed, not validated, unendeared. |
Unblighted | adj | Not affected by blight or anything that mars or prevents growth or prosperity; "unblighted towns and wicks". 2. not affected with blight; not preventing the growth and fertility of by blight. 2. that doesn't cause rot in or blast vegetables, or blights corn and fruit, and not injurious to man. 3. hence: not pernicious or destructive to the happiness of; does not ruin or blight man, animal or plant; unmarring; unfrustrating; as, unblightish to one's prospects. |
Unblind | vb | To be free from blindness. |
Unbliss | n | Unhappiness, sadness, sorrow, without delight. |
Unblissful | adj | Destitute of happiness; blissless; unhappy. |
Unblissfully | adv | Unhappily, sadfulnessly, sorrowfully, ungodly. |
Unblithe | adj | Unhappy, sad, sorrowful, not delighted. 2. of things: unpleasant, disagreeable. |
Unblithely | adv | Unhappily, sadfully, sorrisome, undelightful, blissless. |
Unbloodied | adj | Not smeared or stained in blood. |
Unbloodily | adv | In a bloodless manner; in a way without shedding blood. |
Unbloodiness | n | State or condition of being without blood or bloodness. 2. not having bloodthirsty ways. |
Unbloody | adj | Not involving the shedding of blood. 2. unbloody grave: that of one who has not died by bloodshed. 3. having no blood, unbloodied. 4. not bloodthirsty; diverse to bloodshed. |
Unblown | adj | Not driven or tossed by wind, as flower or blossom. 2. not blown out; not extinguished. 3. not sounded; noiseless, without din. |
Unboden | adj | Uninvited; unbidden, not provided with arms or weapons. |
Unbodied | adj | Free from the body; disembodied. 2. having no body. |
Unbodily | adj | Incorporeal. |
Unbodiliness | n | State or condition of being free rom the body. 2. state or condition of bearing ethereal, formless, nonphysical, immaterial, spiritual. |
Unboding | adj | Unpropitious, unpromising; not anticipated. |
Unbody | vb | To leave or quit the body; to be free from the body. 2. to disembody; to render amorphous. |
Unbold | adj | Lacking in boldness. 2. deficient in self-confidence or energy; timid, unbrave, undaring, undoughty, bashful, backward, slow. |
Unboldness | n | The state or quality of lacking self-confidence. 2. undaring, undoughty, bashful, unbrave. |
Unbolt | vb | Unlock, open by sliding the bolt from the catch. |
Unbolted | adj | Not fastened by bolts; not bolted. |
Unbone | vb | To unbend or straighten. 2. to remove the bone. |
Unboned | adj | Not boned or bent; straight. |
Unbooked | adj | Not entered, registered or recorded in book. 2. not book-learned; unread; uninformed. |
Unbookish | adj | Not bookish or studious; free from bookishness and books. |
Unbookishness | n | The fact or state of not being studious or booked-learned; unbook-learned. 2. unread; uninformed. |
Unboot? | vb | To remove the boots from. 2. to take off one's boots. |
Unborn | adj | Not yet born; future. 2. not carried or endured. |
Unborrowed | adj | Not taken on pledge or credit. |
Unbosom | adj | To reveal something hidden or secret. 2. to relax or elease from one's embrace. |
Unbosom | phr | "Unbosom Oneself" - reveal, disclose, one's secret thoughts, anxieties. |
Unbottom | vb | To divest of bottom, base or foundation. 2. fig. to deprive of support or stay. 3. to make unstable or unsettle. |
Unbottomed | adj | Bottomless; unfathomable. 2. unsupported; not founded on or in something. 4. deprived of a bottom or foundation. |
Unbought | vb | To not purchase or buy. |
Unboughted | adj | Unpurchased; not bought. 2. unpunished. |
Unboundness | n | The state or condition unlimited by boundaries. 2. unlimitness, boundlessness. |
Unbowed | adj | Not bowed, invincible, undaunted. |
Unbowing | adj | Unbending, unyielding. |
Unbowingness | n | State or condition of being unyielding, unbending, inflexible. |
Unbowsome | adj | Unyielding, stiff, inflexible, unable to bend or stoop. |
Unbowsomeness | n | State or condition of being unyielding, unbending, inflexible; stiff. |
Unbreathed | adj | Not breathed, hence not whispered or spoken; not communicated to another. |
Unbraid | vb | To unplait, unweave; separated. 2. to not move in a jerky or sudden movement |
Unbranded | adj | (Of a product) not bearing a name. 2. (of livestock) - not branded with the owner's mark. |
Unbreaking | adj | Not separating or breaking apart. 2. not as yet happening or occurring. |
Unbreathe | vb | To cease to breathe; to expire, die. |
Unbreathed | adj | Unexercised, unpractised, unfit, unhealthy. 2. not having recovered breath, exhausted. 3. not uttered or whispered (as in speech) |
Unbred | adj | Not properly brought up. 2. not imbued with good manners; unmannerly; ill-bred. 3. not trained in; not brought up to some occupation. |
Unbreeched | adj | Not wearing breeches or trousers. |
Unbriche | adj | Useless; unservicable. |
Unbridle | vb | To remove a harness from a horse. 2. to loosen a restraint (fig. and lit.) |
Unbridged | adj | Not having or crossed by a bridge. |
Unbroken | adj | Of compacts etc; not broken or infringed. 2. unviolated, inviolate. 3. of material things, not broken or fractured; intact, whole. 4. not crushed, humiliated, humbled or subdued. 5. not impaired or weakened. 6. of horses, not tamed or tractable. 7. of ground, not broken by plowing or digging. 8. not thrown in disorder. 9. not variegated. |
Un-broken-ness | n | The state or condition of being without a break or interruption; having no hiatus. |
Unbrother | vb | To deprive of, or be deprive of a brother through separation or death. 2. to deprive of the feeling of brotherhood. |
Unbrotherliness | n | State or condition of not being brotherly or having the characteristics of a brother. |
Unbrotherly | adv | Not brotherly or characteristic of a brother. 2. in a manner or spirit befitting a brother. |
Unbrought | adj | Not carried. 2. not brought forth or into. |
Unbuild | vb | To pull down, demolish, destroy a building or a structure. |
Unbuilt | adj | Not yet built or erected. 2. made without buildings. 3. of land, not occupied with buildings; not built on or upon. |
Unburden | vb | To free from burden; to relieve. |
Unburden | phr | "Unburden Oneself" - reveal to somebody one's anxieties, sorrows etc which are a burden to one's thoughts, or conscience. |
Unburdensome | adj | Relieving someone or something of a burden. |
Unburden-some-ness | n | The state or condition of relieving someone or something of a burden. |
Unburied | adj | Not buried, entombed or interred; uninterred. |
Unburn | vb | To restore from the effects of burning. |
Unburning | adj | Not burning or scotching, as from a fire or sun: " the kind, unburning sun." |
Unburnt | ppl | Not burnt or consumed by fire. 2. not subjected to the action of fire for a specific purpose; esp. of bricks, clay, lime. |
Unbury | vb | To disinter, exhume, dig up, take out of the ground. |
Unburying | n | Having the qualities of not being able to be buried; unburiable; fig. as of the emotions: an unburying anger. |
Unbusied | adj | Leisurely. |
Unbusiness-like | adj | Of unprofessional or incompetent action (or act) in the carrying out of business dealings. 2. shoddy, incompetent; unmethodical, |
Unbusy | adj | Not busy or engaged. 2. leisurely, unbusied. |
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