Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter U - Page 23
Unready (a.) 沒準備好的;不敏捷的 Not ready or prepared; not prompt; slow; awkward; clumsy. -- Dryden.
Nor need the unready virgin strike her breast. -- Keble.
Unready (a.) 不穿衣服的;裸體的 [F] Not dressed; undressed. [Obs.]
Unready (v. t.) To undress. [Obs.] -- Sir P. Sidney.
Unready (a.) Not prepared or in a state of readiness; slow to understand or respond; "she cursed her unready tongue" [ant: ready].
Unreal (a.) 不真實的,假的;虛構的,幻想的 Not real; unsubstantial; fanciful; ideal.
Unreal (a.) Lacking in reality or substance or genuineness; not corresponding to acknowledged facts or criteria; "ghosts and other unreal entities"; "unreal propaganda serving as news" [ant: existent, real].
Unreal (a.) Not actually such; being or seeming fanciful or imaginary; "this conversation is getting more and more unreal"; "the fantastically unreal world of government bureaucracy"; "the unreal world of advertising art" [ant: real(a)].
Unreal (a.) Contrived by art rather than nature; "artificial flowers"; "artificial flavoring"; "an artificial diamond"; "artificial fibers"; "artificial sweeteners" [syn: artificial, unreal] [ant: natural].
Unreal (a.) Lacking material form or substance; unreal; "as insubstantial as a dream"; "an insubstantial mirage on the horizon" [syn: insubstantial, unsubstantial, unreal] [ant: material, real, substantial].
Unrealistic (a.) 不切實際的;非現實(主義)的 Not realistic; "unrealistic expectations"; "prices at unrealistic high levels" [ant: {realistic}].
Unrealistically (adv.) 不現實地;不切實際地 In an unrealistic manner; "his expectations were unrealistically high" [ant: {realistically}].
Unreality (n.) 不真實;不現實;虛幻;不真實的事物 The quality or state of being unreal; want of reality.
Unreality (n.) The quality possessed by something that is unreal [ant: reality].
Unreality (n.) The state of being insubstantial or imaginary; not existing objectively or in fact [syn: unreality, irreality] [ant: realism, reality, realness].
Unrealize (v. t.) 使變為空幻To make unreal; to idealize.
His fancy . . . unrealizes everything at a touch. -- Lowell.
Unreally (adv.) 不大可能地In an unreal manner; ideally.
Unreason (n.) 無理性;不合理 Want of reason; unreasonableness; absurdity.
Abbot of Unreason. See Abbot of Misrule, under Abbot.
Unreason (v. t.) To undo, disprove, or refute by reasoning. [Obs.]
To unreason the equity of God's proceedings. -- South.
Unreason (n.) The state of being irrational; lacking powers of understanding [syn: irrationality, unreason].
Unreasonable, () See reasonable.
Unreasonable (a.) 不講理的,非理智的;不合理的;超出情理的;過分的 Not reasonable; irrational; immoderate; exorbitant. -- Un*rea"son*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*rea"son*a*bly, adv.
Unreasonable (a.) Not reasonable; not showing good judgment [ant: reasonable, sensible].
Unreasonable (a.) Beyond normal limits; "excessive charges"; "a book of inordinate length"; "his dress stops just short of undue elegance"; "unreasonable demands" [syn: excessive, inordinate, undue, unreasonable].
Unreasoned, () See reasoned.
Unreasoned (a.) Not supported by reason; unreasonable. "Unreasoned habits." -- Burke.
Unreave (v. t.) To unwind; to disentangle; to loose. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Unreaved, () See reaved.
Unreaved (a.) Not torn, split, or parted; not torn to pieces. [Obs.] -- Bp. Hall.
Unrebukable (a.) Not deserving rebuke or censure; blameless. -- 1 Tim. vi. 14.
Unrecognisable (adv.) Beyond recognition; in an unrecognizable manner; "he had unrecognizably aged" [syn: {unrecognizably}, {unrecognisable}] [ant: {recognizably}].
Unrecognisable (a.) 無法認出的;不能識別的 Defying recognition as e.g. because of damage or alteration [syn: {unrecognizable}, {unrecognisable}].
Unreconstructed (a.) Adhering to an attitude or position widely held to be outmoded; "peasants are still unreconstructed small capitalists at heart"; "there are probably more unreconstructed Southerners than one would like to admit" [ant: reconstructed].
Unreconstructed (a.) (Often humorous) (觀點或行爲方式)頑固守舊的,食古不化的 Having opinions or behaving in a way not considered to be modern or politically acceptable in modern times.
// She describes herself as an unreconstructed feminist.
Unrecuring (a.) Incurable. [Obs.] "Some unrecuring wound." -- Shak.
Unredeemed (a.) Not redeemed.
Unredeemed (a.) In danger of the eternal punishment of Hell; "poor damned souls" [syn: cursed, damned, doomed, unredeemed, unsaved].
Unreeve (v. t.) (Naut.) To withdraw, or take out, as a rope from a block, thimble, or the like.
Unreformation (n.) Want of reformation; state of being unreformed. [Obs.] -- Bp. Hall.
Unregeneracy (n.) The quality or state of being unregenerate. -- Glanvill. Unregenerate
Unregenerate (a.) Alt. of Unregenerated
Unregenerated (a.) Not regenerated; not renewed in heart; remaining or being at enmity with God.
Unregenerate (a.) Tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield [syn: stubborn, obstinate, unregenerate] [ant: docile].
Unregenerate (a.) Not reformed morally or spiritually; "unregenerate human nature"; "unregenerate conservatism" [syn: unregenerate, unregenerated] [ant: regenerate].
Unregenerate (a.) Unrepentant and incapable of being reformed; "an unregenerate criminal" [syn: unreformable, unregenerate].
Unregeneration (n.) Unregeneracy.
Unrein (v. t.) To loosen the reins of; to remove restraint from. -- Addison.
Unrelenting (a.) Not relenting; unyielding; rigid; hard; stern; cruel. -- Un`re*lent"ing*ly, adv. -- Un`re*lent"ing*ness, n.
Unreliable (a.) Not reliable; untrustworthy. See Reliable. -- Un`re*li"a*ble*ness, n.
Alcibiades . . . was too unsteady, and (according to Mr. Coleridge's coinage) "unreliable;" or perhaps, in more correct English, too "unrelyuponable." -- De Quincey.
Unreligious (a.) Irreligious. -- Wordsworth.
Unremembrance (n.) Want of remembrance; forgetfulness. -- I. Watts.
Unremitting (a.) Not remitting; incessant; continued; persevering; as, unremitting exertions. -- Cowper. -- Un`re*mit"ting*ly, adv. -- Un`re*mit"ting*ness, n.
Unremorseless (a.) Utterly remorseless. [Obs. & R.] "Unremorseless death." -- Cowley.
Unrepentance (n.) Impenitence. [R.]
Unreproachable (a.) Not liable to be reproached; irreproachable.
Unreprievable (a.) Not capable of being reprieved. -- Shak.
Unreproved (a.) Not reproved. -- Sandys.
Unreproved (a.) Not having incurred reproof, blameless. [Obs.]
In unreproved pleasures free. -- Milton.
Unreputable (a.) Disreputable.
Unreserve (n.) Absence of reverse; frankness; freedom of communication. -- T. Warton.
Unreserved, () See reserved.
Unreserved (a.) Not reserved; not kept back; not withheld in part; unrestrained. -- Un`re*serv"ed*ly, adv. -- Un`re*serv"ed*ness, n.
Unresistance (n.) Nonresistance; passive submission; irresistance. -- Bp. Hall.
Unresisted, () See resisted.
Unresisted (a.) Not resisted; unopposed. -- Bentley.
Unresisted (a.) Resistless; as, unresisted fate. [R.] -- Pope.
Unresistible (a.) Irresistible. -- W. Temple.
Unresistingly (adv.) (In British English) In an unresisting or unopposing manner.
Unresistingly (adv.) (not comparable) In an unresisting way; without resistance.
Unrespect (n.) Disrespect. [Obs.] "Unrespect of her toil." -- Bp. Hall.
Unresponsible (a.) Irresponsible. -- Fuller. -- Un`re*spon"si*ble*ness, n.
Unrest (n.) Want of rest or repose; unquietness; sleeplessness; uneasiness; disquietude.
Is this, quoth she, the cause of your unrest! -- Chaucer.
Can calm despair and wild unrest Be tenants of a single breast? -- Tennyson.
Unrestraint (n.) Freedom from restraint; freedom; liberty; license.
Unrestraint (n.) The quality of lacking restraint [ant: control, restraint].
Unresty (a.) Causing unrest; disquieting; as, unresty sorrows. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Unrevenued (a.) Not furnished with a revenue. [R.] -- Milton.
Unreverence (n.) Absence or lack of reverence; irreverence. [Obs.] -- Wyclif.
Unreverend (a.) Not reverend.
Unreverend (a.) Disrespectful; irreverent. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Unreverent (a.) Irreverent. [R.] -- Shak.
Unreverently (adv.) Irreverently. [R.] -- B. Jonson.
Unriddle (v. t. & i.) To read the riddle of; to solve or explain; as, to unriddle an enigma or a mystery. -- Macaulay.
And where you can't unriddle, learn to trust. -- Parnell.
Unriddler (n.) One who unriddles. -- Lovelace.
Unrig (v. t.) (Naut.) To strip of rigging; as, to unrig a ship. -- Totten.
Unright (a.) Not right; wrong. [Obs.] -- Gower.
Unright (n.) A wrong. [Obs.]
Nor did I you never unright. -- Chaucer.
Unright (v. t.) To cause (something right) to become wrong. [Obs.] -- Gower.
Unrighteous (a.) Not righteous; evil; wicked; sinful; as, an unrighteous man.
Unrighteous (a.) Contrary to law and equity; unjust; as, an unrighteous decree or sentence. -- Un*right"eous*ly, adv. -- Un*right"eous*ness, n.
Unrightwise (a.) Unrighteous. [Obs.] -- Wyclif. -- Un*right"wise`ly, adv. [Obs.]
Unringed (a.) Not having a ring, as in the nose. "Pigs unringed." -- Hudibras.
Unrioted (a.) Free from rioting. [Obs.] "A chaste, unrioted house." -- May (Lucan).
Unrip (v. t.) To rip; to cut open. -- Bacon.
Unripe (a.) Not ripe; as, unripe fruit.
Unripe (a.) Developing too early; premature. -- Sir P. Sidney.
Unripeness (n.) Quality or state of being unripe.
Unrivaled (a.) Having no rival; without a competitor; peerless. [Spelt also unrivalled.] -- Pope.
Unrivet (v. t.) To take out, or loose, the rivets of; as, to unrivet boiler plates.
Unrobe (v. t. & i.) To disrobe; to undress; to take off the robes.
Unroll (v. t.) To open, as what is rolled or convolved; as, to unroll cloth; to unroll a banner.
Unroll (v. t.) To display; to reveal. -- Dryden.
Unroll (v. t.) To remove from a roll or register, as a name.
If I make not this cheat bring out another . . . let me be unrolled and my name put in the book of virtue! -- Shak.
Unroll (v.) Reverse the winding or twisting of; "unwind a ball of yarn" [syn: unwind, wind off, unroll] [ant: roll, twine, wind, wrap].
Unroll (v.) Unroll, unfold, or spread out or be unrolled, unfolded, or spread out from a furled state; "unfurl a banner" [syn: unfurl, unroll] [ant: roll up, wrap up].
Un-Romanized (a.) Not subjected to Roman arms or customs. -- J. Whitaker.
Un-Romanized (a.) (Eccl.) Not subjected to the principles or usages of the Roman Catholic Church.
Unroof (v. t.) To strip off the roof or covering of, as a house. -- Shak.
Unroofed (a.) [Properly p. p. of unroof.] Stripped of a roof, or similar covering. Broken carriages, dead horses, unroofed cottages, all indicated the movements. -- Sir W. Scott.
Unroofed (a.) [Pref. un- not + roofed.] Not yet roofed.
Unroost (v. t.) [1st pref. un- + roost.] To drive from the roost. -- Shak.
Unroot (v. t.) [1st pref. un- + root.] To tear up by the roots; to eradicate; to uproot.
Unroot (v. i.) To be torn up by the roots. -- Beau. & Fl.
Unrude (a.) Not rude; polished. -- Herrick.
Unrude (a.) Excessively rude. [Obs. & R.] "See how the unrude rascal backbites him." -- B. Jonson.
Unruffle (v. i.) [1st pref. un- + ruffle.] To cease from being ruffled or agitated. -- Dryden.
Unruffled (a.) Not ruffled or agitated; smooth; calm; tranquil; quiet.
Calm and unruffled as a summer's sea. -- Addison. Unruinate
Unruffled (a.) Free from emotional agitation or nervous tension; "the waiters were unflurried and good natured"; "with contented mind and unruffled spirit" -- Anthony Trollope [syn: unflurried, unflustered, unperturbed, unruffled].
Unruffled (a.) (Of a body of water) Free from disturbance by heavy waves; "a ribbon of sand between the angry sea and the placid bay"; "the quiet waters of a lagoon"; "a lake of tranquil blue water reflecting a tranquil blue sky"; "a smooth channel crossing"; "scarcely a ripple on the still water"; "unruffled water" [syn: placid, quiet, still, tranquil, smooth, unruffled].
Unruinate (a.) Alt. of Unruinated.
Unruinated (a.) Not ruined or destroyed. [Obs.] "Unruinated towers." -- Bp. Hall.
Unruled (a.) Not governed or controlled. "Unruled and undirected." -- Spenser.
Unruled (a.) Not ruled or marked with lines; as, unruled paper.
Unruliment (n.) Unruliness. [Obs.] "Breaking forth with rude unruliment." -- Spenser.
Unruliness (n.) Quality or state unruly.
Unruliness (n.) The trait of being prone to disobedience and lack of discipline [syn: unruliness, fractiousness, willfulness, wilfulness].
Unruly, () See ruly.
Unruly (a.) 難駕馭的,任性的,不守規矩的 Not submissive to rule; disregarding restraint; disposed to violate; turbulent; ungovernable; refractory; as, an unruly boy; unruly boy; unruly conduct.
But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. -- James iii. 8.
Compare: Submissive
Submissive (a.) 服從的;柔順的 [(+to)] Ready to conform to the authority or will of others; meekly obedient or passive.
‘A submissive, almost sheeplike people.’
Unruly (a.) Noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline; "a boisterous crowd"; "a social gathering that became rambunctious and out of hand"; "a robustious group of teenagers"; "beneath the rumbustious surface of his paintings is sympathy for the vulnerability of ordinary human beings"; "an unruly class" [syn: boisterous, rambunctious, robustious, rumbustious, unruly].
Unruly (a.) Unwilling to submit to authority; "unruly teenagers" [syn: disobedient, unruly].
Unruly (a.) Of persons; "the little boy's parents think he is spirited, but his teacher finds him unruly" [syn: indocile, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unruly].
Unrumple (v. t.) To free from rumples; to spread or lay even.
Unsacrament (v. t.) To deprive of sacramental character or efficacy; as, to unsacrament the rite of baptism. [Obs.]
Unsad (a.) Unsteady; fickle. [Obs.]
O, stormy people, unsad and ever untrue. -- Chaucer.
Unsadden (v. t.) To relieve from sadness; to cheer. [R.] -- Whitlock.
Unsaddle (v. t.) To strip of a saddle; to take the saddle from, as a horse.
Unsaddle (v. t.) To throw from the saddle; to unhorse.
Unsaddle (v.) Remove the saddle from; "They unsaddled their mounts" [syn: unsaddle, offsaddle] [ant: saddle].
Unsadness (n.) Infirmity; weakness. [Obs.] -- Wyclif.
Unsafety (n.) 不安全 The quality or state of being in peril; absence of safety; insecurity. -- Bacon.