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unEnglish

unEnglish is the rare spelling of un-English.

Meaning of un-English

Adjective

un-English (comparative more un-English, superlative most un-English)

  1. Not English.
    • A quick scan of a couple of pages in a dictionary that records the origin of our vocabulary reveals that many entries in it are historically “un-English.” This is not surprising; languages travel […]2009, Donka Minkova, Robert Stockwell, English Words: History and Structure, page 24

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Forms of unEnglish

comparativemore unEnglish
superlativemost unEnglish

Questions about unEnglish

What is unEnglish the rare spelling of?
UnEnglish is the rare spelling of un-English.

Words near unEnglish in the dictionary

  1. unengages
  2. unengaging
  3. unengagingly
  4. unengendered
  5. unengineered
  6. unEnglish
  7. unengorged
  8. unengrafted
  9. unengraved
  10. unengraven
  11. unengrossed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unEnglish (page history and authors); un-English (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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