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unaccented.adjective
in linguistics,
having no diacritical
mark; having weak stress
or no stress
unbend, unbent,
unbending,
unbends.verbs
transitive
verb use.to release
from mental tension,
strain
or formality;
relax;
to release a bow, for example from flexure
or tension;
to straighten something crooked or bent
(unbend a paper clip)
intransitive
verb use.to become less tense; relax;
to become less strict;
to become straight
unbendable.adjective
unadaptable.adjective
not adaptable
unnatural.adjective
in violation
of a natural law; inconsistent
with an individual pattern or custom;
deviating
from a behavioral or social.norm
(an unnatural attachment);
contrived
or constrained;
artificial
(smiled in an unnatural
manner);
in violation of natural feelings; inhuman
unnaturally.adverb
unnaturalness.noun
unlawful.adjective
not lawful;
illegal;
contrary
to accepted morality;
illicit;
unlawfully.adverb
unlawfulness.noun
uncle.noun,.plural.uncles
the brother of one's mother
or father; the sex partner or husband
of one's aunt
uncleless.adjective
unwilling.adjective
not willing;
hesitant
or loath (unwilling to face facts);
done, given or said reluctantly
(unwilling to be bamboozled
she stood up for principles
on the side of concern for all)
unwillingly.adverb
unwillingness.noun
unafraid.adjective
feeling, exhibiting
or expressing no fear
urban.adjective
of,.relating.to.or.located
in a city; characteristic
of the city or city life
urbane,
urbaner,
urbanes.adjectives
polite,
refined
and often elegant in manner;
suave
urbanely.adverb
uncaring.adjective
devoid
of concern or compassion
uncaringly.adverb
uncaringness.noun
unceremonious.adjective
not ceremonious;
informal
(made an unceremonious presentation);
abrupt
(an unceremonious departure; not being a ceremonious lady, she exited
the raucous party without telling
anyone she was leaving)
unceremoniously.adverb
unceremoniousness.noun
undisturbed.adjective
not.disturbed;
calm
unapparent.adjective
not readily.apparent
(the many pitfalls of a Mount
Everest expedition are at first unapparent; out of sight or knowing
unimportant.adjective
not.important;
petty
unimportance.noun
unprovoked.adjective
not provoked
or prompted
unless.conjunction
except
on the condition that; except
under the circumstances that;
you use unless to introduce
the circumstances in which an event
you are mentioning will or will
not take place or in which a statement
you are making is true or not true (unless it hurts most people will do
nothing; unless I finish today I won't be going tomorrow; unless you are
trying to lose weight to please yourself, it's going to be tough to keep
your motivation level high; we cannot comprehend disease unless we know
the individual who has the disease)
unless.preposition
except for; except
unreserved.adjective
not held back for a particular
person (an unreserved seat); given without reservation;
unqualified:
unreservedpraise;
exhibiting
no reserve (an unreserved
grin of
approval)
unreservedly.adverb
unreservedness.noun
uppermost.adjective
in the highest position,
place or rank (finished uppermost in the standings; the uppermost balcony
of the apartment building); the uppermost part of something is the part
that is higher than the rest of it (her uppermost concern is her children
and so it should be); the
uppermost thing is the highest one of a group of things (she lives in a
small house on the uppermost part of the valley; the rain spattered
on the uppermost leaves); if something is uppermost in a particular.situation,
it is the most.important
thing in that situation
uppermost.adverb
lift the fish and carefully
place it on a large board, flat side uppermost
uppermost.adverb
undertone.noun,.plural.undertones
attitudes
causing overtones; (the various
floors of the office have subtly
altered feelings from each other); if something has undertones of a particular
kind, it suggests ideas or attitudes of this kind without expressing them
directly (a witty, racy
story with surprisingly serious undertones; they noticed a hesitant
undertone even being in the office just
once); an underlying or implied.tendency
or meaning; an undercurrent;
a tone
of low pitch or volume,
especially of spoken sound
Color:.a
pale
or subdued color; a color applied
under or seen through another color
unconformable.adjective
not in conformity;
conforming
unconformability.or.unconformableness.noun
unconformably.adverb
undependable.adjective
not easily relied
or depended
on (an undependable worker; an undependable lamp socket; the quality
of the water here is undependable)
undependability.noun
unrivaled.adjective
having no rival
or equal; incomparable; unsurpassed
unsurpassed.adjective
if you describe something as unsurpassed, you
are
emphasizing
that it is better or greater than anything else of its kind;
so great no equal is known to it; not capable
of being improved
on at the present time
unhewn.adjective
not given a finished form by or as if by hewing;
(unhewn wood; a house of unhewn gray stone roughly cemented together);
crude;
rough;
undressed; unfinished; unpolished; unworked
univalent.adjective
Chemistry:.in
chemistry,
having
valence;
having only one valence
Genetics:.of.or.relating.to
a chromosome
that is not paired or united with its homologous
chromosome during synapsis
univalent.noun,.plural.univalents
Genetics:.a
univalent chromosome
untempered.adjective
not having been tempered;
not brought to a proper.consistency
or hardness (untempered mortar; untempered steel); extravagant
or extreme (the inhumanity
of untempered natures in totalitarian.despots,
such as Mussolini and Pol
Pot, only to name two)
untrustworthy.adjective
if you say that someone
is untrustworthy, you think they are unreliable and cannot be trusted;
not worthy of trust or belief (the
evolutionary concept as applied
to the beginning of life's organisms
is wholly undependable)
unreliable.adjective
marked
by or exhibiting a lack
of reliability
unreliability.or.unreliableness.noun
unreliably.adverb
utensil.noun,.plural.utensils
an instrument,
an implement or a container
used domestically, such as
in a kitchen (kitchenwares);
a tool
unbridled.adjective
unrestrained;
uncontrolled: unbridled anger; not
wearing or being fitted with a bridle
(an unbridled pony)
unbridledly.adverb
unbridle,
unbridled,
unbridling,
unbridles.transitive
verbs
to free from restriction
or restraint; to free from a
bridle
unsanctioned.adjective
not sanctioned;
without explicit.permission
(unsanctioned use of company cars)
unremitting.adjective
never slackening;
persistent
unremittingly.adverb
unremittingness.noun
unprofitable.adjective
bringing in no profit
or profits (an unprofitable business.venture);
serving no useful purpose (an unprofitable argument);
worthless
unprofitably.adverb
unprofitability.noun,.plural.unprofitabilities
unprofitableness.noun,.plural.unprofitablenesses
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