Old English | n | English |
Unlade | vb | To unload or discharge a load or cargo from a ship. 2. to unburthen or relieve by the removal of something. 3. to unpack. 4. to discharge a firearm. |
Unlading | n | The act of unloading or discharging a load. |
Unladen | adj | Unloaded, discharged, relieved. |
Unladen weight | n | The weight of a vehicle etc when not loaded with goods. |
Unladylike | adj | Lacking the behavior or manner or style considered proper for a lady. 2. coarse, crude, ill-bred, inconsiderate, insensitive, offensive, tactless, unfeminine, genteel-lacking, not gentle, unrefined, vulgar. |
Unlaid | adj | Not laid, placed, fixed or set. 2. laid out (as a corpse). 3. (slang) of a woman who no one has had, or a particular person who has not had, sexual intercourse. 4. of spirits not laid by exorcism. 5. not laid open or out. |
Unlame | adj | Wholly free. |
Unland | n | Unarable land. 2. deprivation (of land). |
Unlanded | adj | Not possessed of land. |
Unlap | vb | To uncover by withdrawing a cloth or the like. 2. to unfold; to spread open. 3. to detach in a strip. |
Unlast | vb | To fail to last. |
Unlasting | adj | Ephemeral, as "Man's life is as unlasting as a flower". 2. short-lived, unenduring. |
Unlatch | vb | To open or unlock by releasing the latch. 2. to unfasten the latch of aa door. |
Unlaughing | adj | Not given to laughter or mirth. 2. stern, solemn, serious, gloomly. |
Unlaw | n | An illegal action. 2.evil custom or habit. 3. amercemant, penalty, fine. |
Unlaw | vb | To fine, amerce. 2. to pay a fine. 3. to annul a tax. |
Unlawful | adj | Not conforming to legality, moral law, or social convention; improper, unconventional. 2. contrary to or prohibited by or defiane of law; as in unlawful hunters. 3. not morally right or permissible; as unlawful love. 4. having no legally established claim; as a wrongful heir. 5. contrary to or forbidden by law; as an outlawed strike; illegitimate, illicit, outlaw, outlawed, |
Unlawfully | adj | In a manner contrary to or in violation of the law; illegal, illicit. |
Unlawfulness | n | Unlawful or unloyal conduct. 2. the quality of being illegal or illegimate. 3. illegality, illegitimacy. |
Unlaw-learned | adj | Not conversant in the law and its way. |
Unlaw-like | adj | Not relating to or not abiding by the law |
Unlay | vb | To untwist a rope into separate strands. |
Unlawing | n | The action of illegality. |
Unlawyered | adj | Not represented or assisted by a lawyer. |
Unlawyerlike | adj | Not like or befitting a lawyer. 2. inappropriate for a lawyer. 3. uncharacteristic or untrained as a lawyer. |
Unlawyerly | adj | Uncharacteristic of a lawyer. |
Unlead | vb | To divest or strip of leadership. |
Unleaded | adj | Not weighed, covered or furnished with lead. 2. of petrol without added lead. |
Unlearn | vb | To dismiss from the mind something learned. |
Unlearned | adj | Untaught, uneducated, ignorant. |
Unlearning | adj | Dismissing from the mind what has been learned. |
Unlearnly | adv | In a manner unlearned, untaught, uninstructed. |
Un-learned-ness | n | Condition of being unlearned, wanting of learning, ignorancy. |
Unleast | adj | Not the smallest in size, amount, degree or slightest. 2. not the lowest in consideration, position or importance. |
Unleave | vb | To strip of leaves. 2. to lose or shed leaves. 3. to defoliate. |
Unleaved | adj | Defoliated, stripped (of leaves); unfurnished of leaves or foliage. |
Unled | adj | Without leadership or direction. 2. not guided. |
Unlede | n | A foreign or hostile people. |
Unlede | adj | Unhappy, miserable. 2. evil, dreadful, wicked. 3. vile, detestable; foriegn (of persons or things). |
Unleeful | adj | Not permissible or allowed. 2. illicit, illegal. |
Unleefulness | n | State or quality of being not permitted. |
Unleese | vb | To unfasten, undo, open. |
Unlefted | adj | Touched, contacted, affected. |
Unlength | n | Shortness. |
Unlengthened | adj | Not lengthened or increased in length. |
Unless | conj | That, that is, in less, in a less case. 2. upon any less condition than (the fact or thing stated in the sentence or clause which follows); if not; that not; if it be not; were it not that; except; as, we shall fail unless we are industrious. 3. aside from, bar, barring, beside, besides, but, except, if not, leaving out, let alone, outside of, save, save and except, saving, than, unless that, were it not, without. |
Unless | prp | By the omission of the verb in the dependent clause, unless was frequently used as preposition, 'here nothing breeds unless the nightly owl' |
Unlessen | vb | To not decrease in size, extent, or range, not diminish, not lessen, not fall. 2. to not make smaller. 3. not wear off or die down; not subside or mitigate. 4. to not make less; to reduce; not decrease in size, or become fewer. |
Unlest | conj | Not in order that.. not; not so that..; not for fear that. |
Unletting | adj | Of a property receiving no rent. |
Unlicked | adj | Not licked into shape, as a new born animal by its mother. 2. not licked into shape; rough, crude (from the old idea that that the she-bear licks her cubs into shape) |
Unlidden | adj | Not furnished or covered with a lid. |
Unlie | n | Truth, truthfulness |
Unlife | n | The state or being that is not life (but may resemble it). |
Unlife-like | adj | Of a non-living or deathly image. 2. resembling something or someone no longer living. 3. giving a representation of something without life. |
Unlighted | adj | Unfired, unkindled; not bright or clear, dark. |
Unlightened | ppl | Not having or producing light. 2. not lighted, unbrightened, unlighted. |
Unlightsome | adj | Not full of, uncharacterised by, or not causing light. |
Unlike | adv | Unevenly, unequally. 2. differently, diversely. 3. in a manner differently from that (of a specified person). 4. improbably |
Unlike | n | (Also adj): not like or resembling, different from. 2. not like each other, dissimilar. 3. dissimilar to the thing or person in question. 4. not uniform or even; improbable. 5. a person unlike or similar to others or another. |
Unlike | phr | "How Unlike From" - how diffrernt from. 2. how unlike some, possibly idealized ,satndard of civilized home life, behavior, business, practice, etc. |
Unliked | adj | Not liked or fondly or affectionately thought of. |
Unlikelihood | n | The improbability of a specified outcome; unlikeliness, long shot. 2. absence of likelihood; dark horse, faint likelihood, fighting chance, hardly a chance, hundred-to-one shot, improbability, little expectation, long odds, off chance, outside chance, slim chance, small chance. |
Unlikeliness | n | The improbability of a specified outcome; unlikelihood. 2. the quality or state of being unlikely. |
Unlikely | adj | Not likely to be true or to occur or to have occurred; improbable. 2. has little chance of being the case or coming about. 3. having a probability too low to inspire belief; improbable, unbelievable, unconvincing. 4. not to be reasonably expected; as, an unlikely event. 5. not holding out a prospect of success; likely to fail; unpromising; as, unlikely means. 6. not such as to inspire liking; unattractive; disagreeable. |
Unlikely | adv | In an unlikely manner. |
Unliken | vb | To make unlike; to dissimilate. (obs) |
Unlikeness | n | Strangeness, dissimilarity. 2. the quality of being dissimilar. 3. a bad or poor likeness. |
Unlikening | n | The making of something or somebody unlike; or dissimilar. |
Unliking | adj | Want of liking; dislike; dissatisfaction. 2. unpleasant, disagrreable. |
Unlimb | vb | To dismember. |
Unline | vb | To divest a garment of lining. |
Unlined | adj | Of a paper without lines. 2. of the face:wrinkles. |
Unlink | vb | Undo the links of a chain. 2. detach or set free by undoing or unfastening a link or chain. |
Unlistening | n | The state of not listening or being prepared to listening. |
Unlit | adj | Not lit. |
Unlittle | adj | Not little, samall or tiny. |
Unlive | vb | To deprive of life. 2. to reverse, undo by living or annul (a past life or experience). 2. to live so as to wipe out the effects of (a former period of life). 3. to live down. |
Unlived | adj | Deprived of life. 2. not really or fully lived. |
Unlived-in | adj | Uninhabited, unused by the inhabitants. |
Unliveliness | n | The state or quality of being slothful, inert, unenergetic. |
Unlively | adv | Unliving, lifeless, not lively, unanimated, or bright, dull. |
Unliving | adj | Not living or alive; lifeless; dead. |
Unlivingness | n | The state of not living. |
Unload | vb | To remove the load of cargo from; to discharge freight from. 2. to take of or discharge a cargo from. 3. to relieve of something burdensome or oppressive. 4. to withdraw the charge of ammunition from. 5. to dispose of, esp. by selling in large quantities of. |
Unload | phr | "Unload Onto" - pass a heavy or irksome burden on to somebody else. |
Unloaded | adj | Removed from a load of cargo. 2. unburdened, disposed of, withdraw ammunition from. |
Unloader | n | One who or that which unloads; spec. a contrivance for unloading something, as hay or coal. |
Unloading | n | The act of unloading something. |
Unloath | vb | To not loath; disincline, be not reluctant, angry or be unwilling. |
Unloathfulness | n | State of not being full loathing, unwilling or angry.. |
Unloathingly | adv | In a manner not loathing, unwilling or angry. |
Unloathfully | adv | In a manner neither angry or unwilling. |
Unloathness | n | Harmlessness, innocence. |
Unlock | vb | To unfasten something locked. 2. to open, undo, release. 2. to lay open, disclose or reveal. 3. to become unlocked. |
Unlocked | adj | Not locked. |
Unlocking | adj | The act by which something is unlocked. |
Unlofty | adj | Not high or elevated. |
Unlonely | adj | Not lonely. |
Unlonged-for | adj | Not yearned or wished for. |
Unlooked | adj | Not attended to; neglected, unregarded, unheeded, unexamined. 2. unexpected; unlooked-for, unanticipated. |
Unlooked-for | adj | Unexpected, not anticipated. |
Unlord | vb | To deprive of the position or rank of a lord. |
Unlorded | adj | deprived of the rank of a lord. 2. not raised to the rank of a lord. |
Unlordly | adv | Not lordly. |
Unlost | adj | Not lost or misplaced. |
Unlove | n | The absence of love. |
Unlove | vb | To cease to love a person. |
Unloved | adj | Not loved, not held in affection. 2. unrequited in love. 3. not pursued or felt as love. |
Unloveliness | n | Unlovely. 2. not evoking a feeling of love or affection. 3. unattractive in appearance, unpleasantly, uncomeliness, unhandsome, ugly, repellent. |
Unlovely | adj | Without beauty or charm. 2. not lovely; not amiable; possessing qualities that excite dislike; disagreeable; displeasing; unpleasant. 2. beautiless, blemished, defaced, disfigured, homely, inelegant, marred, plain, short on looks, ugly, ugly as hell, unaesthetic, unattractive, unbeautiful, uncomely, unpretty,
unhandsome, unpleasing, unsightly. |
Unloverlike | adj | Not in a manner expected of a lover: "Shocked at someone unloverlike speech". |
Unloving | adj | Not giving or reciprocating affection. 2. affectless, chilly, coldhearted, emotionless, frigid, frosty, heartless, icy, passionless, soulless, spiritless, unaffectionate, unamiable, unbenign, uncordial, unemotional, unfeeling, ungenial, unkind, unpassionate, unresponsive, unsympathetic, untouchable. |
Unlovingly | adv | In a manner or way without love or affection. 2. unkindly, uncordial, cold-heartedly. |
Unlovingness | n | A kind of unlovingness and hate against another or others. |
Unlust | n | Absence of pleasure, distress, 2. want of appetite; nausea. 3. the disinclination to be active or bestir oneself. 4. slothness, laziness, idleness. 5. unpleasantness, repulsiveness. |
Unlustiness | n | Lack of health or strength. 2. physical weakness or debilitation. 3. lack of cheerfulness or readiness. 4. dullness, disinclination. |
Unlusty | adj | Indisposed to activity or exertion. 2. slothful, lazy, dull, listless. 3. unyielding, very fat. 4. lacking in bodily vigour; deficient in health. 5. Of land: not in good condition or "heart". 6. having an unattractive or ill-favoured look. 7. unpleasant, undesirable, objectionable. |
Unlying | adj | Honest, trustworthy, truthful. |
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