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unrecent

unrecent adjective: not recent.

Adjective

unrecent (comparative more unrecent, superlative most unrecent)

  1. Not recent.
    • […] the past seemingly far removed from a not unrecent time when being sent to Ionia was synonymous with a life sentence of electrotherapy, straightjackets, and padded cells.2010, Jonathan M. Metzl, The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease

Forms of unrecent

comparativemore unrecent
superlativemost unrecent

Origin of unrecent

From un- + recent.

Questions about unrecent

What does unrecent mean?
Unrecent means not recent.
What part of speech is unrecent?
Unrecent is an adjective.

Words near unrecent in the dictionary

  1. unreceding
  2. unreceipted
  3. unreceivable
  4. unreceived
  5. unreceiving
  6. unrecent
  7. unreceptive
  8. unreceptively
  9. unreceptiveness
  10. unreceptivity
  11. unrecessed

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