unilingual
unilingual adjective: knowing or using a single language.
Adjective
unilingual (not comparable)
- Knowing or using a single language.
- If you're black you've had to improvise communication with unilingual whites, she'd probably easily acquire this ancient one, too.2012, Nadine Gordimer, No Time Like the Present, Bloomsbury, published 2013, page 46
- Synonyms:
- monolingual
- Antonyms:
- multilingual, plurilingual
Noun
unilingual (plural unilinguals)
- A person who understands only one language.
unilingual meaning in Tamil
unilingual in Tamil
- ஒரே மொழி சார்ந்த
Synonyms of unilingual
Antonyms
Forms of unilingual
| plural | unilinguals |
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Origin of unilingual
From uni- + lingual.
Words formed from unilingual
Words that rhyme with unilingual
- translingual
- bilingual
- buccolingual
- decalingual
- lingual
- nonalingual
- octolingual
- pentalingual
- quadrilingual
- sublingual
- ambilingual
- dentilingual
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- heptalingual
- hexalingual
- labiolingual
- multilingual
- polylingual
- prelingual
- quinquelingual
- sesquilingual
- tetralingual
- trilingual
- alveololingual
- anterolingual
- apicolingual
- audiolingual
- axiolingual
- brevilingual
- cervicolingual
- colingual
- collingual
- crosslingual
- distolingual
- dorsolingual
- equilingual
- exolingual
- faciolingual
- fissilingual
- gingivolingual
- heterolingual
- homolingual
- hyolingual
- interlingual
- intralingual
- laterolingual
- matrilingual
- mediolingual
- mesiolingual
- mesolingual
- metrolingual
- midlingual
- monolingual
- omnilingual
- panlingual
- paralingual
- perilingual
- plurilingual
- posterolingual
- postlingual
- protolingual
Questions about unilingual
- What does unilingual mean?
- Unilingual means knowing or using a single language.
- What is unilingual in Tamil?
- Unilingual in Tamil is ஒரே மொழி சார்ந்த. See Unilingual meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is unilingual?
- Unilingual can be an adjective or a noun.
Words near unilingual in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: unilingual (page history and authors); unilingual (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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