unweather
/ʌnˈwɛðə(ɹ)/
unweather noun: bad weather; storm.
Noun
unweather (plural not attested)
- Bad weather; storm.
- The composition of the following note did not occupy him half an hour: — Major von Wismar lets himself a thousand times be greased, and fears him the unweather shall defend for to day the premeditated walk on horseback, which Madame ― graciously vowed him for half three of the hour.1837, Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, volume 16
- The strangers would then have been only too gladly drenched to the skin that they might have hugged their wagered souls in the belief that this unweather was of Nature, and not of the Evil One. But the Heavens shed no tear.1894, James Platt, Tales of the Supernatural: Six Romantic Stories
Verb
unweather (third-person singular simple present unweathers, present participle unweathering, simple past and past participle unweathered)
- To undo or reverse the effects of weathering
- I sprayed the underbody with Floquil's Grimy black and also gave the sides, ends and roof a light coat of this color. This was followed by Floquil's Zinc Chromate primer mixed with about 20 percent glaze to “unweather” the car and provide a base color suitable for decal application.1986, Railroad Model Craftsman - Volume 55
- An unbendable form dries worthless, brittle, only fire unweathers cochineal mud.1994, World Order - Volumes 26-28
Examples of unweather in a sentence
- Waiting for the weather, or the unweather.2003, Alpinist - Issues 5-8
- Occupy Sandy and other grassroots organizations work to “unweather” Sandy, to move it away from a weather-based event and toward an incident that exacerbated and made preexisting crises more apparent.2015, Julia Leyda, Diane Negra, Extreme Weather and Global Media:
Forms of unweather
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| alternative form (obsolete) | unwether |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | unweathers |
| present participle | unweathering |
| past participle | unweathered |
| past | unweathered |
Origin of unweather
Likely a calque of Middle English unweder, Old English unweder (“bad weather; storm”) or Germanic cognates such as Saterland Frisian Uunweeder, Dutch onweer, German Low German Unweer, German Unwetter, and Danish uvejr, Swedish oväder, Icelandic óveður. In any case, equivalent to un- (negative) + weather.
Probably a back-formation from unweathered, equivalent to un- (reversive prefix) + weather.
Questions about unweather
- What does unweather mean?
- Unweather means bad weather; storm.
- How do you use unweather in a sentence?
- Waiting for the weather, or the unweather.
- What part of speech is unweather?
- Unweather can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce unweather?
- Unweather is pronounced /ʌnˈwɛðə(ɹ)/.
Words near unweather in the dictionary
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