unmeet
unmeet adjective: not meet or proper.
Adjective
unmeet (comparative more unmeet, superlative most unmeet)
- Not meet or proper.
- I haue (purpoſelie) omitted and left out ſome fond & friuolous Ieſtures, digreſſing (and in my poore opinion) farre vnmeete for the matter[…].c. 1587–1588 (date written), R[ichard] I[ones], “To the Gentlemen Readers […] ”, in Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones...
- […] O, my father! / Prove you that any man with me convers'd / At hours unmeet, or that I yesternight / Maintain'd the change of words with any creature, / Refuse me, hate me, torture me to death.1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
Verb
unmeet (third-person singular simple present unmeets, present participle unmeeting, simple past and past participle unmet)
- To undo the process of meeting.
- Tell him […] that I wish I could unmeet him because he’s on my brain so much it makes me feel crazy.2008, Paula Chase, “Good Boys vs. Bad Boys”, in Who You Wit’? (A Del Rio Bay Novel), New York, N.Y.: Dafina Books, →ISBN
- But if I could unmeet him somehow, make all this unhappen, I would.2008, Jeri Smith-Ready, “I Forgot to Remember to Forget”, in Wicked Game, New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books, →ISBN
unmeet meaning in Urdu
unmeet in Urdu
- غیرشائستہ, نامناسب
Examples of unmeet in a sentence
- Ferdinand himself gazed on her a moment astonished; then with animated courtesy hastily raised her, and playfully chid the movement as unmeet from a hostess to her guests.1851, Grace Aguilar, The Vale of Cedars:
- Where shall we keep the holiday, / And duly greet the entering May? / Too strait and low our cottage doors, / And all unmeet our carpet floors; […]1867, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “May-Day”, in May-Day and Other Pieces, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, pages 14–15:
- There were many hideous histories the colonel could have told you of, unmeet to be set down, and he was familiar with this talk of pelvic anomalies which were congenital.1915, James Branch Cabell, The Rivet in Grandfather’s Neck:
- I wish I could unmeet you, unread you, unknow you, unarrange my life around you.2010, Seth King, chapter 10, in Honesty, [North Charleston, S.C.]: [CreateSpace], →ISBN, page 154:
Forms of unmeet
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more unmeet |
| superlative | most unmeet |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | unmeets |
| present participle | unmeeting |
| past participle | unmet |
| past | unmet |
Origin of unmeet
From Middle English unmete, vnmete, unimete, from Old English unġemǣte, unmǣte (“immense, enormous; unsuitable”), equivalent to un- + meet (“fit, right”).
From un- + meet.
Words formed from unmeet
Questions about unmeet
- What does unmeet mean?
- Unmeet means not meet or proper.
- What is unmeet in Urdu?
- Unmeet in Urdu is غیرشائستہ, نامناسب. See Unmeet meaning in Urdu.
- How do you use unmeet in a sentence?
- Ferdinand himself gazed on her a moment astonished; then with animated courtesy hastily raised her, and playfully chid the movement as unmeet from a hostess to her guests.
- What part of speech is unmeet?
- Unmeet can be an adjective or a verb.
Words near unmeet in the dictionary
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