Unhigh Unhonorable Unhopeful Unhostile Unhurt Unhhurtful Unhygienic
Unideal Unidle Unillusory Unimaginable Unimaginative Unimmortal
Unimplicit Unimportant Unimpressible Unimpressionable Unimprovable
Unipugnable Unincidental Unincrasable Unindifferent Unindulgent
Unindustrious Uninflammable Uninfluential Uningenious Uningenuous
Uninhabitable Uninjurious Uninquisitive Uninstructive Unintelligent
Unintelligible Unintentional Uninteresting Uninterpretable Uninventive
Uninvestigable Unjealous Unjoyful Unjoyous Unjustifiable Unkingly
Unknightly Unknotty Unknowable Unlaborious Unladylike Unlevel
Unlibidinous Unlightsome Unlimber Unlineal Unlogical Unlordly Unlosable
Unlovable Unlucent Unluminous Unlustrous Unlusty Unmaidenly Unmakable
Unmalleable Unmanageable Unmanful Unmanlike Unmanly Unmarketable
Unmarriable Unmarriageable Unmarvelous Unmasculine Unmatchable
Unmatronlike Unmeek Unmeet Unmelodious Unmendable Unmentionable
Unmercenary Unmerciable Unmeritable Unmerry Unmetaphorical Unmighty
Unmild Unmilitary Unmindful Unmingleable Unmiraculous Unmiry
Unmitigable Unmodifiable Unmodish Unmoist Unmonkish Unmotherly
Unmuscular Unmusical Unmysterious Unnamable Unnative Unnavigable
Unneedful Unnegotiable Unniggard Unnoble Unobjectionable <! p. 1563 !>
—— and the like.
<! p. 1564 !>
(c) To present particles which come from intransitive verbs, or are
themselves employed as adjectives, to mark the absence of the activity,
disposition, or condition implied by the participle; as, -
—— and the like.
The above classes of words are unlimited in extent, and such compounds
may be formed by any writer or speaker at will from almost all the
adjectives or participles in the language, excepting those which have a
recognized and usual negative correspondent with the prefix -in. No
attempt will be made, therefore, to define them all in this Dictionary;
many will be omitted from its Vocabulary which are negations of the
simple word, and are readily explained by prefixing a not to the
latter. Derivatives of these words in -ly and -ness will also, for the
most part, be omitted for the same or similar reasons.
There will be inserted as separate articles with definitions, the
following: —
1. Those which have acquired an opposed or contrary, instead of a
merely negative, meaning; as, unfriendly, ungraceful, unpalatable,
unquiet, and the like; or else an intensive sense more than a prefixed
not would express; as, unending, unparalleled, undisciplined,
undoubted, unsafe, and the like.
2. Those which have the value of independent words, inasmuch as the
simple words are either not used at all, or are rarely, or at least
much less frequently, used; as, unavoidable, unconscionable,
undeniable, unspeakable, unprecedented, unruly, and the like; or
inasmuch as they are used in a different sense from the usual meaning
of the primitive, or especially in one of the significations of the
latter; as, unaccountable, unalloyed, unbelieving, unpretending,
unreserved, and the like; or inasmuch as they are so frequently and
familiarly used that they are hardly felt to be of negative origin; as,
uncertain, uneven, and the like.
3. Those which are anomalous, provincial, or, for some other reason,
not desirable to be used, and are so indicated; as, unpure for impure,
unsatisfaction for dissatisfaction, unexpressible for inexpressible,
and the like.
II. Un- is prefixed to nouns to express the absence of, or the contrary
of, that which the noun signifies; as, unbelief, unfaith, unhealth,
unrest, untruth, and the like.
Compounds of this last class are given in full in their proper order in
the Vocabulary.