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unmeetly

UK/ʌnˈmiːtli/

unmeetly adverb: in an unmeet way; unbecomingly.

Adverb

unmeetly (comparative more unmeetly, superlative most unmeetly)

  1. In an unmeet way; unbecomingly.
    • they met / With a faire Mayden clad in mourning weed, / Upon a mangy jade unmeetely set […]1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
    • Yet there are noble passages in his later poems: and even the latest have their own peculiar charm of serenity and kindliness,—a tranquil sunset, as it were, succeeding not unmeetly to the fiery splendours of his noontide course.1879, F. D. Morice, Pindar, chapter 3, page 28

Forms of unmeetly

comparativemore unmeetly
superlativemost unmeetly

Origin of unmeetly

From unmeet + -ly.

Questions about unmeetly

What does unmeetly mean?
Unmeetly means in an unmeet way; unbecomingly.
What part of speech is unmeetly?
Unmeetly is an adverb.
How do you pronounce unmeetly?
Unmeetly is pronounced /ʌnˈmiːtli/ (UK).

Words near unmeetly in the dictionary

  1. unmeekness
  2. unmeet
  3. unmeetable
  4. unmeeting
  5. unmeetings
  6. unmeetly
  7. unmeetness
  8. unmeets
  9. unmelancholic
  10. unmelancholy
  11. unmelanised

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