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unkard

unkard is the alternative form of unked.

Meaning of unked

Adjective

unked (comparative more unked, superlative most unked)

  1. (UK, archaic, dialectal) odd; strange
    • On Tuesday afternoon Molly returned home, to the home which was already strange, and what Warwickshire people would call 'unked,' to her. New paint, new paper, new colours; grim servants dressed in their best, and objecting to every change1864 August – 1866 January, [Elizabeth] Gaskell, Wives and Daughters. An Every-day Story. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], published 1866, →OCLC
  2. (UK, archaic, dialectal) ugly
    • And there the little stalk of each, which might have been a pear, God willing, had a ring around its base, and sought a chance to drop and die. The others which had not opened comb, but only prepared to do it, were a little better off, but still very brown and unked, and shrivelling in doubt of...1869, Richard Doddridge Blackmore, Lorna Doone, Chapter 17
  3. (UK, archaic, dialectal) uncouth
  4. (UK, archaic, dialectal) lonely; dreary
    • March 21, 1790, William Cowper, letter to Mrs. Throckmorton
      Weston is sadly unked without you.

Forms of unkard

comparativemore unkard
superlativemost unkard

Questions about unkard

What is unkard the alternative form of?
Unkard is the alternative form of unked.

Words near unkard in the dictionary

  1. unk-unk
  2. unk-unks
  3. unk.
  4. unKafkaesque
  5. Unkar
  6. unkard
  7. unke
  8. unked
  9. unkeeled
  10. unkeen
  11. unkeenly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unkard (page history and authors); unked (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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