Old English | n | English |
Unkempt | adj | Untidy, of neglected appearance. 2. uncombined dishevelled. 3. |
Unkemptly | adv | In an untidy or neglected or dishevelled appearance. |
Unkemptness | n | A lack or condition of being not well-combed and tidy. 2. slovenliness, sloppiness. |
Unkenned | adj | Unknown, strange, imperceiveable, unexplored. |
Unkennedness | n | State or conduct of strangeness, imperception, ignorance. |
Unkenny | adj | Unknowing, ignorant. |
Unkept | adj | (Especially of promises or contracts) having been violated or disregarded; "broken (or not kept) promises". |
Unker | prn | Of us two. 2. belonging to us two. |
Unketh | adj | Uncouth, unknown, strange, foreign, ignorant. |
Unkethness | n | Uncouthness. |
Unkind | adj | Strange, foreign. 2. of weather, climate: not mild or pleasant. |
Unkindly | adv | Not in or with kindness; of little kindness. |
Unkindhood | n | Unnatural conduct, ingratitude, baseness. |
Unkind-hearted | adj | Not kind hearted or done with kindness. |
Unkindled | adj | Not fired up, ignited or set fire to. |
Unkindleness | n | The state of non-ignition or unconflagrated. |
Unkindliness | n | Unkindly in conduct or behaviour. |
Unkindling | adj | Not burning, as in "waning into the dull unkindling air." |
Unkindly | adj | Morally unnatural; unnaturally wicked or vile. 2. unnatural in respect of relations or dealings in others. 3. of weather, soil etc. unnaturally bleak or cold. 4. unfavourable to comfort or growth. 5. inclement, not properly conditioned, developed or thriving. 6. prejudicial to health; not developing in a natural healing manner. 7. not of the same kind; strange. 8. lacking natural affection. devoid of kindness, unkind. |
Unkindly | adv | With natural immorality or impropriety. 2. with enmity, harshness, cruelty. 3. contrary to right feeling or conduct. 4. improperly, ungratefully, unsuccessfully. 5. in an unkind manner; marked with unkindness, dissatisfaction, resentment. |
Unkindness | n | Unnatural conduct; absence of affection or consideration for others. 2. uncharitableness, niggardness, ingratitude, unthankfulness. 3. a flock of ravens. 4. the fact of being unkind, unkind actions or treatment; also, an instance of this. 5. unfriendly feelings, ill-will, enmity, hostility. 6. unkindship |
Unkindred | adj | Not related by blood; not kinfolk or not a body of people related. 2. " their souls unkindred, can never understand our language." |
Unkindredly | adv | " A set of wretches are those of her unkindredly kin". 2. not related by blood or family. |
Unkindship | n | Unkindness. |
Unking | vb | To deprive of a position of king. 2. to dethrone from sovereignity; divest of royal status. 3. to abdicate. 4. to deprive a country of its king. |
Unkinged | adj | Deprive of the position or authority of a king. 2. deposed from a kingship. 3. not raised to the dignity of a king. |
Unkingdom | vb | To deprive a monarch or a dynasty of its realm; as in "The Stuarts long since unkingdomed ". |
Unkinglike | adj | Not like a king; unbecoming to or of a king, not in accordance with the position or character of a king. |
Unkingly | adv | In an unkingly manner; unlike a king. |
Unkingship | n | State or action in deposing of a king. |
Unkinlike | adj | Not like or in the manner expected of one kin or family member. |
Unkissed | adj | Not kissed; without being kissed. |
Unkithe | vb | To be not known or visible, to vanish, disappear. 2. to fail to manifest, or display. |
Unkithed | pp | Awkward or troublesome from unfamiliarity or novelty. 2. unfamiliar or dreary; solitary, forlorn, lonely. 3, uncanny, weird, eerie. |
Unknelled | adj | Not sounded or rung like a bell, esp. to announce a funeral; as "with a grave, unknelled, not in coffin, and unknown. |
Unknightlike | adj | Not like a knight; unbecoming to or of a knight, not in accordance with the position or character of a knight. |
Unknightly | adv | In an unknightly manner; unlike a knight. |
Unknit | vb | To untie or undo a knot. 2. something untied. 3. to ungird oneself. 4. not to knit together, or closely knit, disjoin, disunite, unclasp. 5. to smooth over. 6. detach, sever, separate. |
Unknitting | n | Unknotting, the act of disentangling knots; untying; unfastening. 2. the action of unlacing of yarn, material or thread by hand or by machinery. 3. the disjoining of something to cause separation. 4. disuniting, disconnecting; disengaging. 5. the drawing apart of something that has been knitted together. |
Unknot | vb | To release or untie the knot or knots in. 2. (of a muscle) relax after tense and hard. |
Unknotty | adj | Without or devoid of knots. |
Unknow | vb | Not to know something something. 2. to fail to recognise, fail to perceive, to be ignorant. 3. to cease to know; to forget (what one has known). |
Unknowing | n | Ignorance, as "A cloud of unknowing". 2. not possessed of knowledge; uninformed, ignorant. 3. without knowledge; ignorant of something. |
Unknowning | phr | "A Cloud of Unknowing" - ignorance; without knowing; uninformed. |
Unknowingly | adv | In a manner ignorant or not knowing. |
Unknowingness | n | "Unknowningness shall not excuse your day of doom". 2. a state of ignorance or not knowing.. |
Unknowledge | n | Absence or want of knowledge; something unknown to one. |
Unknowledged | adj | Unacknowledged. 2. not admit knowledge, not recognised. 3. unknowledging. |
Unknown | adj | Not known, unrecognised, ignorant of. 2. unostentatious, unshowy. |
Unknown | phr | "Into the Unknown" - into an area about which nothing is known. |
Unknown | phr | "The Great Unknown" - where one may go to after death. 2. outer space and stars. |
Unknowly | adv | Not in a manner or state of known or being aware of. 2. mysteriously. |
Unknownness | n | The quality of being unknown. |
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