Old English | n | Modern English |
Uncallow | adj | With hair; not bald; hairy. 2. covered with loam, gravel, sand, earth. |
Uncallow | vb | To clear the surface of clay, soil, marl, sand, etc. |
Uncallowing | n | Condition of being with hair, unbald, hairish. |
Uncanny | adj | Mischievious, malicious. 2. careless, incautious. 3. unreliable, not to be trusted. of persons - not quite safe to trust in, or have dealings with, as being associated with supernatural acts or powers. 3. partaking of a supernatural character; mysterious, weird; uncomfortabilty strange or unfamiliar. 4. |
Uncared-for | adj | Not looked after, neglected, untended. |
Uncaredly | adv | Without taking care; recklessly. |
Uncareful | adj | Without care or concern for others; unkind; reckless. 2. without care, affection or liking. |
Uncaringness | n | State or quality of not caring, having liking or respect for. 2. without care for others; hard-hearted, uncompassionate; unkind. |
Unchidden | adj | Unscolded, unreproved, not reproved. 2. free of anger, dispute, wrangle. |
Unchild | vb | To deprive of children; to make childless. 2. to deprive of the status of a child or the qualities peculiar to childhood, as in many Third World countries. |
Unchilded | adj | Deprived or destitute of children; childless. |
Unchildlike | adj | Not like or behaving like a child. 2. mature by years; precious. |
Unchildly | adv | Unfilial; undutiful. |
Un-christen-ness | n | State of being a non-Christian or unbaptisted into the Christian faith. |
Unclad | adj | Unclothed, not clad; undressed, naked. |
Unclean | adj | Not morally pure; impure; defiled, unchasted. 2. of persons, want of physical cleanliness: dirty, unwashed, ; of their thoughts: unchaste, unclean, impure. |
Uncleanliness | n | The state or condition of not being morally pure; impure; defiled, unchasted. 2. of persons, thoughts; ways: unchasteness, impurity, dirtness, foulness, malodorous. 3. wanting of physical cleanliness; dirty, filthy, malodorous. |
Uncleanly | adv | Morally or spiritually impure. 2. lacking in physical cleanliness or in a manner unclean; dirty, foulish; filthy, malodourously. |
Uncleanness | n | Quality or state of being morally or spiritually unclean; morally impurity; an instance of this. 2. physical impurity; filthiness, foulness, squalor. |
Uncleave | vb | To become unfastened or detached. |
Unclench | adj | Open the fist; release; untighten; loosen grip on. |
Unclose | vb | To leave or keep open; unshut or lock. |
Unclothe | vb | To strip of vegetation. |
Uncloud | vb | To clear or free from clouds or cloudiness. 2. fig - to free from obscurity or gloom; to clear. 3. to become clear. |
Unclouded | adj | Not obscured or darken by clouds. 2. transfig or fig. not darkened or obscured. |
Uncomeliness | n | The quality of being uncomely; a want of comeliness, fairness or seemliness. 2. unruliness. |
Uncomely | adj | Not pleasing or agreeable in the moral sense or to the notion of propriety. 2. unbecoming, imprecise, unseemly. 3. not pleasing or agreeable to the senses; not comely or fair to look upon. |
Uncomely | adv | Unsuitably; unagreeably; unseemly; imprecisely. 2. unfairly, unattractively; not beautifully. |
Uncocked | adj | Of a hat: not turned up. |
Uncooked | adj | Not cooked for eating. 2. not altered or suited for a purpose. |
Uncouth | adj | Of facts or matters of knowledge: unknown; not certainly known; uncertain. 2. not acquainted or familiar with; unfamiliar; unaccustomed, strange. 3. of ways, paths, etc., land, persons, nations, foreign things: unknown or unfamiliar in character; unusual, uncommon, strange, marvellous (rare), alien, foriegn to something; unrecognisable. 3. of manners, unseemly, indecorous. 4. of smells: unpleasant, malodorous. 5. places: not commonly known or frequented; solitary, desolate, rugged, rough, wild. 6. of life, surroundings: unattractive, unpleasant, uncomfortable; strange, uneasy; at a loss. 7. of strange appearance or form: odd, uncomely, akward; clumsy shape or bearing. 8. of persons: awkward, uncultured in manners or appearance;. 9. of language:unknowing, ignorant. 10. unknown of persons; such as a stranger. 11. of things not commonly known; news. |
Uncouthly | adv | In a strange, unfamiliar or uncouth manner. |
Uncouthness | n | The quality or condition of being uncouth in various senses. |
Uncouthsome | adj | Unfavourable, unpleasant. |
Uncraftily | adv | Unskilfully. 2. without deceit or in a manner undeceitfully. |
Uncraftiness | n | Unskilfulness. 2. deceitlessness. |
Uncraftly | adv | Not dextrous or ingenious. 2. unskilful. |
Uncunning | n | Ignorance, stupidity, unskilfulness, gorm. |
Uncunning | adj | Ignorant, lack of knowledge, unlearned, stupid, gullible, gormless, unskilful. |
Uncunningly | adv | In an ignorant manner, unskilfully. |
Uncunningness | n | The state or quality of being ignorant, ignorance. 2. unskilfulness, gullibility. |
Uncunningship | n | Uncunninghood. |
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