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unprime

unprime adjective: not prime; not of the highest quality.

Adjective

unprime (not comparable)

  1. Not prime; not of the highest quality.

Verb

unprime (third-person singular simple present unprimes, present participle unpriming, simple past and past participle unprimed)

  1. (transitive) To take out of a state of readiness.
    • to unprime a pump

Forms of unprime

third-person singular presentunprimes
present participleunpriming
past participleunprimed
pastunprimed

Origin of unprime

From un- + prime.

Questions about unprime

What does unprime mean?
Unprime means not prime; not of the highest quality.
What part of speech is unprime?
Unprime can be an adjective or a verb.

Words near unprime in the dictionary

  1. unpriests
  2. unpriggish
  3. unpriggishly
  4. unpriggishness
  5. unprimable
  6. unprime
  7. unprimeable
  8. unprimed
  9. unprimes
  10. unpriming
  11. unprimitive

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