List of Old English Words in the OED/UNW

Old English	n	English
Unwakened	pp	Sleeping, as "waters sleeping unwakened by the wind". 2. not wakened.
Unwakening	adj	Not rousing from sleep or awakening. 2. to keep sleeping not waking up. 3. unwatchful, unalert or vigilant.
Unwalked	adj	Unfulled (of blankets). 2. not traversed by walking. 3. not having been walked; unrambled.
Unwalking	adj	Not inclined to physical activity, esp. walking; as "I am so unwalking, that prospects are more agreeable to me, when I look at them through the window".
Unwall	vb	To deprive of, to free from or to demolish a wall.
Unwalled	adj	Without enclosing walls.
Unwallowed	adj	Not rolling about or from side to side. 2. not plunged or in degraded living.
Unwandered	pp	Of persons : not travelled or undertaken voyaging. 2. stable, settled, not wandering aimlessly about.
Unwaning	adj	Not growing less or decreasing. 2. remaining the same: not shrinking or growing smaller.
Unward	adj	Unprotected, unguarded, undefended.
Unwarded	adj	Unguarded, unprotected.
Unware	adj	Unaware: not conscious, lacking caution. 2. not on guard.
Unwary	adj	Incautious, not careful of actions: done incautiously. 2. unaware, ignorant. 3. without knowing it, in ignorance, innocently. 4. unforeseen, unknown.
Unware	adj	Giving no heed, not cognisant, as of something not specified. 2. carelessly, unmindful, in attentive, heedless. 3. without warning, unexpectedly.
Unwares	adv	Unexpectedly. 2. without premeditation; unwittingly. 3. suddenly.
Unwarely	adv	Incautiously, without taking heed. 2. without warning, unexpectedly.
Unwareness	n	Unwariness, incautiousness.
Unwarily	adv	Without heed or caution; not warily; in an unwary manner.
Unwariness	n	The quality or state of being unwary or taking no precaution against danger.
Unwarlike	adj	Peaceful; peace-loving; not warlike.
Unwarm	adj	Lukewarm, tepid, not cold or not warm.
Unwarm	vb	To grow cold; become lukewarm or tepid.
Unwarmed	adj	Not warmed.
Unwarming	adj	That not giving warmth.
Unwarn	vb	To fail to give warning to another or others.
Unwarned	adj	Not warned or fore-warned. 2. unannounced. 3. not guarded or protected.
Unwarning	adj	Without warning or premeditation.
Unwarp	vb	To uncoil, straighten out. 2. to restore from being warped or prejudiced.
Unwary	adj	Taking no precautions against accident or danger; esp. not realizing the necessity of such precautions; incautious. 2. incautious, not careful of actions: done incautiously. 3. unaware, ignorant. 4. without knowing it, in ignorance, innocently. 5. unforeseen, unknown.
Unwash	vb	To not wash or keep oneself clean. 2. to not launder one's clothes.
Unwashed	adj	Not washed; dirty. 2. not reached by the sea.
Unwashed	phr	"The Great Unwashed" - usually a derogatory reference to the lower classes (the mob) of former days or to less hygenic habits of our ancestors. 2. university students in western democracies of the 1960s and 1970s.
Unwashness	n	Condition of not being washed or washing oneself.
Unwatched	adj	Not watched.
Unwatchful	adj	Not vigilant, not wakeful, unalert.
Unwatchfully	adv	In an watchful manner.
Unwatchfulness	n	The state or condition of being unwatchful.
Unwater	vb	To drain of water. 2. to carry off water from.
Unwatered	adj	Not sprinkled, moistened or supplied with water. 2. not mixed with water; undiluted. 3. of land or a district: not provided with a natural spring of water.
Unwatery	adj	Not supplied with or containing water.
Unwaver	vb	Not to move one way or another. 2. to be certain and undecisive; show resolution; not vaccilate. 3. to not show signs of falling back or giving in. 4. to not flicker or gleam.
Unwavering	adj	Marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakeable; firm, unbending, persevering"; steadfast, steady, even, unbendable, unfaltering, stiff, unshakable. 2. not showing abrupt or uneven variations.
Unwaving	adj	Not fluttering, moving up and down or side to side in the wind. 2. not having undulating shape or form. 3. flat, level, calm of a body of water. 4. not making a sweeping or undulating motion, as with a hand or flag.
Unway	n	A place without a way or ways.
Unwayed	adj	Not furnished with paths, ways or roads. 2. of horses: not accustomed to ways or roads, hence: restive, intractable.
Unweakened	adj	Not weakened or made less strong. 2. standing firm, resolute, steadfast.
Unweal	n	Unhappiness, distress.
Unwealful	adj	Unhappy, causing misfortune or distress, unhappiness.
Unwealfulness	n	Unhappiness, sadness, distressfulness.
Unwealsome	adj	Unhappy, distressed, misfortunate.
Unwealthy	adj	Not wealthy or rich, needy, struggling.
Unwealy	adj	Poor, unwealthy, needy, indigent.
Unweaned	adj	Not weaned, immature.
Unweapon	vb	To deprive of a weapon or weapons.
Unweaponed	adj	Not equipped with or bearing a weapon(s); unarmed.
Unwearied	adj	Not wearied or tired, or not tired out; also, not becoming weary, indefatigable. 2. quality, action, condition etc: marked by absence or abatement, unremittance.
Unweariedly	adv	In a manner indefatigably, unwearly, or not tired out.
Unwearily	adv	Without weariness. 2. in a manner weary.
Unwearying	adj	Not wearying or tiring. 2. that does not give or become weary, unremitting, untiring.
Unwearyingly	adv	Pursued tirelessly, sedulously, as "scientific research pursued in studious retirement.
Unweary	adj	Not weary, free from weary, unweariness, unwearied.
Unweary	vb	To restore from unweariness; to refresh or rest. 2. to relieve or ease oneself from something.
Unweather	n	Bad, inclement, rough or stormy weather.
Unweathered	adj	Not exposed to, or unaffected by the action of the weather or atmosphere.
Unweatherly	adj	Inclement.
Unweave	vb	To take out of a woven, intertwined or entangled state or condition; esp. to unravel or undo (a woven fabric). 2. to unintertwine the fingers. 3. to make clear by exposition; to expose, to disclose. 4. to become disentangled (fig)- " how wonderfully strange my fate unweaves".
Unweaving	adj	Disentangled, intertwined, unravelled. 2. "the sleep inducing unweavings. 3 "the unweavings of political combination".
Unweb	vb	To unweave, disentangle, unravel.
Unwebbed	adj	Unwoven, unweaved.
Unwed	adj	Of persons: not wedded, unmarried, single.
Unweddedness	n	The state of being unmarried or single.
Unweeded	Adj	Of ground: having or being covered in weeds.
Unweened	adj	Not thought of or imagined; unexpected.
Unweenly	adv	Unexpectedly, not imagined.
Unweeping	adj	Of person: tearless, without tears or sorrow "death days of unweeping eyes".
Unweeting	adj	Not knowing.
Unweetingly	adv	Unwittingly.
Unweft	adj	Unwoven, unweaved, not intertwined.
Unweighed	adj	Not weighed. 2. fig. not considered carefully.
Unweighing	adj	Thoughtless, inconsiderate.
Unweighingly	adv	"Frivolous and unweightingly business" - not full of thought, lacking depth and profundity.
Unweighted	adj	Remove the weight from (esp. a ski, by ceasing to press)
Unwelcome	adj	Not welcome or acceptable; unpleasing; unwelcoming.
Unwelcome	vb	To receive uncordially or accepting.
Unwelcomed	adj	Not welcomed or accepted with warmth or cordiality.
Unwelcomely	adv	Not with acceptance, with some fear or trepidation: "a rare moccasin was seen unwelcomely close to a school".
Unwelcomeness	n	State or quality of not accepting or greeting someone cordially.
Unwelcoming	adj	Having an inhospitable atmosphere; not welcoming; unfriendly.
Unwell	adj	Not well or in good health; somewhat ill, indisposed. 2. (euph): having menstrual discharge.
Unwellness	n	State or condition of being unwell or not in good health.
Unwemmed	adj	Spotless, pure, immaculate of persons, body, qualities. 2. not injured, hurt or scarred. 3. not physically spotted or stained; unblemished, flawless.
Unwemmedness	n	The state or quality of being spotless, pure, immaculate. 2. of condition: not injured, hurt, harmed or scarred.
Unwept	adj	Not weeping for; not mourned for; unlamenrted, as for a dead person. 2. of tears: unshed or not wept.
Unwet	adj	Dry, not wet, waterless or moisture-free. 2. of the eye: not suffused, tearless.
Unwetted	adj	Not wetted.
Unwhetted	adj	Not sharpened. 2. inactive, unbold, lacking courage.
Unwhited	pp	Unbleached or whitened.
Unwhitened	adj	Not whitened, as in "the unwhitened and unwhite-washed, mud and rough stone cottages of England".
Unwhole	adj	Not in good health, unsound, unhealthly, diseased, sick. 2. spiritually or manually unsure; of unsound. 3. of food: unwholesome.
Unwholeness	adj	Entireness, completeness.
Unwholesome	j	Detrimental to physical or moral well-being; "unwholesome food"; "unwholesome habits like smoking" bad for, baneful, diseased, disgusting, foul, harmful, hurtful, loathsome, polluted, sickly, unhealthful, unhealthy, unsound.
Unwholesomeness	n	The state or condition of being unwholesome.
Unwide	adj	Narrow, confined.
Unwield	n	Feebleness, unwealness, impotence.
Unwield	vb	To manipulate or handle unskilfully.
Unwield	adj	Feeble, weak, impotent. 2. difficult, cumbrous.
Unwieldiness	n	State or quality of being feeble, weak, impotent. 2. difficulty in handling, unskilfulness, cumbersomeness.
Unwieldly	adv	Not wieldy; wielded with difficulty; not readily handled or managed in use or action, as from size, shape, or weight; awkward; ungainly. 2. bulky, unmanageable, clumsy.
Unwieldy	adj	Awkward to handle or move. 2. bulky, unmanageable.
Unwife	vb	To deprive a person of a wife.
Unwife-like	adj	Not like or resembling a wife.
Unwifely	adv	Not in the manner of a wife, as "unwifely frame of mind".
Unwight	n	An evil being or spirit: a fiend or monster; spec. the devil.
Unwild	vb	To tame.
Unwilful	adj	Not bent on having one's own way; not self-willed. 2. not resulting from the exercise of one's will. 3. not involuntary or intentional.
Unwill	n	To do against one's will. 2. something displeasing or undesired. 3. that which is against one's will or wishes. 4. one's dislikes or aversions. 5. the fact or condition of being displeased or offended; displeasure, unwillness. 6. to will or reverse of something one has willed.
Unwilled	adj	Displeased, undesired. 2. disliked, offended.
Unwilling	adj	Not willing; reluctant; loath; averse: an unwilling partner in the crime. 2. opposed; offering resistance; stubborn or obstinate; refractory: an unwilling captive.
Unwillingness	n	The property of being unwilling: reluctant, resaistance, stubborn, averse.
Unwilly	adj	Unwilling to do something. 2. averse, involuntary.
Unwily	adj	Not wily, artful or cunning. 2. simple, silly.
Unwimple	vb	To remove the wimple from; unripple, unfold. 2. smooth out; unplait. 3. to be honest, not hoodwink or deceive.
Unwin	n	Grief, sorrow, distress.
Unwin	adj	Grievous,
Unwind	vb	To wind off; to loose what has been wound. 2. to roll into a ball from a skein of wool, sick, etc. 3. to become unwound.
Unwinding	adj	Winding loose or being drawn from a thing that has wound.
Unwindow	vb	To deprive of windows.
Unwindowed	adj	Without windows, not having windows.
Unwine	n	Foe, enemy, opponent.
Unwindy	adj	Without wind, not blowing in a windy manner.
Unwine	n	An enemy or foe. 2. "The Evil One", the devil, Satan, shuck, the fiend.
Unwinged	adj	Not having wings; without wing. 2. wingless. 3. marked by an absence of wings;
Unwink	vb	Of the eye: to open the eye.
Unwinking	n	Characterized by watchfulness or vigilance. 2. not winking, never closing the eye; unwinkingly.
Unwinly	adv	Unpleasantly, sadly, sorrowfully.
Unwinning	adj	Unconciliatory. 2. unattractive.
Unwinnowed	adj	Of grain: not separated from chaff by means of the wind or current of air. 2. not examined as to separate good (value)from bad (valueless). 3. distinguished, sorted.
Unwire	vb	To remove the wire from.
Unwinter	vb	To divest or lose of the quality of winter.
Unwintry	adj	Not belonging to winter; not cold, frosty, brumal.
Unwiped	adj	Not wiped; not cleaned by wiping; smeary.
Unwisdom	n	The lack or absence of wisdom, ignorance, folly, stupidity. 2. an instance of folly. ignorance.
Unwise	adj	Lacking or deficient in (practical) wisdom, discretion or prudence. 2. indiscreet, imprudent, foolish. 3. not marked, distinguished or prompted by (practical) wisdom. 3. characterised by lack of sound judgement. 4. injudicious, out of one's senses, mad.
Unwisely	adv	Acting in a manner or way not showing wisdom: injudiciously, foolishly.
Unwiseman	n	A fool,simpleton, dolt, fool.
Unwiseness	n	Lack or absence or practical wisdom, foolishness, folly, impudence.
Unwish	vb	To retract something wished. 2. to stop wishing; to make an end of wishing; to wish not to become something to wish away or annihilate a wish. 3. to retract, cancel or abrogate a wish, choice etc. 4. to wish or desire a circumstance, situation not to be. 5. to seek or remove oneself from a particular class or category by wishing. 6. to unwish for.
Unwished	adj	Not wished for.
Unwishful	adj	Not having a wish for; not longing or yearning for.
Unwist	adj	Unknown to one; without it being known. 2. lacking knowledge or something. 3. unknowing, not knowing how.
Unwistful	adj	Unwishful, not longing. 2. not musing, pensive. 3. inattentive, unobservant, wistless.
Unwit	vb	To know not. 2. to be ignorant of something. 3. to deprive of wit or senses.
Unwit	n	Lack of wit or practical knowledge; ignorance, stupidity, imprudence, foolishness.
Unwithood	n	Folly, stupidity, foolishness.
Unwitch	vb	To free from witchcraft; to unchain.
Unwite	vb	Not to penalize or fine. 2. not to blame or reproach. 3. to not act guilty.
Unwithdrawing	adj	Not stretching back or away; unreceding.
Unwithdrawn	adj	Not drawn or taken away, not removed. 2. not taken back as an assertion or a promise, recall. 3. not to keep or abstract for use. 4. not to draw back or retire.
Unwithered	adj	Not to become limp or dry, as a plant when cut down or deprived of moisture. 2. not to waste, as flesh. 3. not to droop or languish. 4. not to abash, as by a scornful glance.
Unwithering	adj	Not to become limp or dry, as a plant when cut down or deprived of moisture. 2. not to waste, as flesh. 3. not to droop or languish. 4. not to abash, as by a scornful glance.
Unwithheld	adj	Not held back or restrained. 2. not kept back, not declined, granted. 3. not refrained or tolerated. 4. divulged
Un-with-it	adj	Not modern or updated. 2. languid of mind..
Unwithholding	n	Frankness.
Unwithstood	vb	Not to withstand or hinder. 2. unopposed; not successfully oppose.
Unwitless	adj	Senseless, insensible.
Unwitness	vb	To not see with one's own eyes.
Unwitnessed	adj	Unobserved, not seen, not encountered.
Unwitship	n	Folly.
Unwitted	adj	Witless; unknown.
Unwitterness	n	Uncertainty.
Unwittily	adv	Not wittily.
Unwitting	adj	Having no knowledge or consciousness of a thing in question; unknowing, unconscious. 2. unintentional.
Unwittingly	adv	In an unwise, ignorant or foolish or unconscious manner; unwisely.
Unwittingness	n	Lack of knowledge, ignorance, realisation; unconsciousness.
Unwittish	adj	Ignorant, foolish, stupid, stultific.
Unwitty	adj	Lacking or deficient in wit; unintelligence, knowledge lacking, unwise, witless. 2. uninexperienced in something. 3. of actions, etc.: having by lack or absent of knowledge, senseless, foolish. 4. not witty or facetious.
Unwived	adj	Not having a wife or wives. 2. wifeless.
Unwiving	adj	Pertaining to celibacy; celibate.
Unwlap	vb	To free or release from a covering.
Unwoeful	adj	Free from pain, distress, trouble.
Unwoman	vb	To deprive of the quality or traits of a woman. 2. to remove from the category of a woman. 3. to unsex ( a woman): to remove the ovaries.
Unwomanlike	adj	Lacking a womanly demeanour, as "she cursed and swore in an unwomanlike manner".
Unwomanliness	n	In a manner or demeanour unlike a woman.
Unwomanly	adv	Not befitting a character of a woman. 2. inappropriate to womanly characteristics. 2. lacking the qualities or traits of a woman. 3. in a manner ubecoming a woman.
Unwomb	vb	To bring into the world, bear, give birth to.
Unwon	vb	To not abide at, dwell in, or live in.
Unwon	adj	Of women: not to successfully woo.
Unwonder	vb	To divest of the qualities of wonder.
Unwondering	n	A state divested of wonder.
Unwont	vb	To disappoint.
Unwont	adj	Unnusual, uncustomary. 2. of persons: strange in manner. 3. not wont, used, or accustomed to do something.
Unwonted	adj	Not according to wont or custom; unusual, uncommon. 2. not accustomed, unfamiliar. 3. not habitual, not commonly heard, seen, appearing, produced rarely or infrequently. 4. not made familiar by practice; unused or unacustomed to something. 5. going beyond ordinary limits.
Unwontedness	n	The state or quality of wont.
Unwontedly	adv	In a strange, unwontedly or unusual manner: unusually, uncommonly.
Unwoo	vb	To not woo earnestly or fully.
Unwooed	adj	Courted earnestly.
Unwooded	adj	Destitute of trees.
Unwoody	adj	Not made of wood.
Unword	vb	To deprive of words or speech. 2. to make speechless.
Unworded	adj	Incapable of being expressed in words; unutterable. 2. lacking words, unsaid.
Unwordy	adj	Not diffuse, prolixic or verbose,; concise.
Unwork	n	"The comfortable philosophy is the real life of this city of unwork". 2. not having the desire to work or be employed". 3. lacking the opportunity to work.
Unwork	vb	To undo or detach from something. 2. to spoil, mar or destroy. 3. to release from an intertwined condition. 4. to undo by contrary action.
Unworked	adj	Not wrought into shape. 2. not exploited or turned to account.
Unworking	adj	Something not working or impractical, as in unworking dilettantism.
Unworkmanlike	adj	Unlike a workman; unworthy of a good workman. 2. badly executed or finished.
Unworkmanly	adv	In a manner uncharacteristic of a good woman.
Unworld	vb	To deprive of qualities of the world. 2. to deprive of a share in wordly activities.
Unworldliness	n	Having an unworldly character.
Unwordly	adv	Of a type transcending or exceeding what is usually found or experienced in the world. 2. of persons: activated by other than wordly or sordid motives; spiritually minded; not motivated by wordly values or interests; spiritually minded.
Unworn	adj	Not affected by attrition or any similar continuous action. 2. not exhausted, spent or used up. 3. not showing the affects of anxiety.
Unworried	adj	Not uneasy in the mind, not anxious of something. 2. to manage or progress despite trails or difficulties.
Unworship	n	Absence of honour, respect or reverence, dishonour, disgrace. 2. act or instance of disgrace or dishonour, a slight. 3. lack or absence of divine worship.
Unworship	vb	To deprive of honour or dignity. 2. to treat with indignity, disrespect or irreverence.
Unworshipful	adj	Unworthy or devoid of esteem or honour. 2. characterised by lack of divine worship.
Unworshiply	adv	Irreverently.
Unworshipped	adj	Not worshipped or adored. 2. not held in reverence or esteem.
Unworshipping	n	The act of treating with disrespect and disrespect. 2. habitually neglecting the worship of God.
Unworth	n	Wanworth, worthlessness. 2. lack of worth, merit or deserve. 3. unworthiness.
Unworth	adj	Of persons, things: Undeserved, contemptous.
Unworth	vb	To treat a person or a thing disparagely or with disdain. 2. to slight, despise. 2. to dishonour something or someone.
Unworth-hood	n	Contempt.
Unworthily	adv	Without being fit, worthy or qualified. 2. without having sufficient merit or ability; unmeritedly.
Unworthiness	n	Contempt, scorn, unworthiness; worthlessness.
Unworthy	adj	Not worthy or deserving. 2. unmerited, unfit, unqualified.
Unworthy	vb	To dishonour, do discredit to, asperse, vilify.
Unwound	vb	To not wound or harm.
Unwounded	adj	Not wounded, not shot, unhurt, unharmed or injured.
Unwoven	adj	Not woven, intertwined or thread together. 2. unwebbed, unweaved; not united.
Unwrast	adj	Of a poor, worthless, or vile quality or condition. 2. miserable, of little account. 3. of persons: addicted to evil, wicked or vice-ridden. 4. of actions: characterised by wickedness, evil, initiquious. 5. untrustworthy, unreliable.
Unwrastness	n	Wickedness, evil, badness.
Unwrastly	adv	In a weak or feeble manner. 2. poorly, weakly, ineffectively. 3. basely, wickedly, evilly.
Unwrathful	adj	Without wrath; calm, placid, lacking rage or vehemence; not angry.
Unwrathfully	adv	In a manner calm, tranquil; not in rage or vehemence.
Unwreak	vb	Not to inflict or exact vengeance. 2. to not satiate. 3. to bridle or not give free expression to, as a feeling or passion.
Unwreaked	adj	Not revenged, avenged, requited or unavenged.
Unwreathe	vb	To free from a wreathed, writhen or intwined condition; to disentangle, untwist. 2. to divest of a wreathe.
Unwree	vb	To free a person from accusation; to clear.??????
Unwreathed	adj	Wreathless.
Unwrench	n	An evil or base trick; artifice or turn. 2. a vice or sin.
Unwrench	vb	To open or detach by wrenching.
Unwrest	vb	To undo, detach or dislocate by wresting or wrenching.
Unwried	adj	Not twisted or wrested.
Unwrinkle	vb	To smooth out wrinkles from.
Unwry	vb	To not bend to one side; not contorted or askew. 2. not made by twist-ing or contorting the features, as an unwry smile." 3. not deviating from that which is right or proper; not perverted. 4. not warped: as a course or an interpretation.
Unwrinkle	vb	To free from wrinkles; make smooth or iron out; take out ripples.
Unwrinkled	adj	Smooth, flat, even, unincreased, unwavey.
Unwrite	vb	To cancel or abrogate the writing of (of something). 2. to annul or rescind a writing.
Unwrithe	vb	To not twist with violence. 2. to not distort the body, face in pain.
Unwriting	adj	Not able to write; illiterate. 2. not incline to write.
Unwritten	adj	Not reduced to writing. 2. not written down, oral, traditional. 3. having no writing upon it, blank.
Unwritten	phr	"An Unwritten Law" - unwritten law refers to the law based upon custom, usage, and judicial decisions. It is distinguished from the enactments of a legislature, orders or decrees in writing. Although an unwritten law is not enacted in the form of statute or ordinance, it has got legal sanction. 2. a long established custom that is difficult to break or disobey.
Unwronged	adj	Not offending or causing distress, sorrow or disappointment to others, as "unwronged and causing no cause for tears".
Unwrongful	adj	Not characterized by wrong or injustice. 3. not injurious or unjust. 3. lawful. legal.
Unwrought	adj	Not beaten or hammered into shape by tools. 2. not yet worked, moulded, made, fashioned or formed. 3. not made with delicacy, not elaborated carefully. 4. not visited upon or afflicted by. 5. of a saw: not planed or wrought.
Unwrung	adj	Not wrung; not galled.
Unwrung	phr	"His Withers are Unwrung" - he is unaffected by the accusation.
Unwry	vb	To uncover oneself, to make naked. 2. to reveal, disclose, make known (some hidden thing, fact, sin. etc.) 3. to coomunicate or divulge a matter.