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unnigh

unnigh adjective: not near.

Adjective

unnigh (comparative more unnigh, superlative most unnigh)

  1. (archaic) Not near.
    • Longman’s Magazine, immediately after his death, published the following poem, which took a very pathetic touch from the circumstances of its appearance—the more that, while it imaginatively and finely commemorated these days of truant wanderings, it showed the ruling passion for home and the old...1905, Alexander H. Japp, Robert Louis Stevenson, second edition

Forms of unnigh

comparativemore unnigh
superlativemost unnigh

Origin of unnigh

From un- + nigh.

Questions about unnigh

What does unnigh mean?
Unnigh means not near.
What part of speech is unnigh?
Unnigh is an adjective.

Words near unnigh in the dictionary

  1. unnie lines
  2. unniecely
  3. unnies
  4. unniggard
  5. unniggardly
  6. unnigh
  7. unnihilistic
  8. unnilbium
  9. unnilennium
  10. unnilhexium
  11. unniloctium

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