Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter U - Page 24

Unsaint (v. t.) To deprive of saintship; to deny sanctity to. [R.] -- South.

Unsaintly (a.) 不像聖者的 Unbecoming to a saint. -- Gauden.

Unsalable (a.) See salable.

Unsalable (a.) 賣不掉的;銷路不好的 Not salable; unmerchantable.

Unsalable (n.) That which can not be sold. -- Byron.

Unsalable (a.) Impossible to sell [syn: unsalable, unsaleable] [ant: salable, saleable].

Unsanctification (n.) Absence or lack of sanctification. -- Shak.

Unsanctification (n.) Unholiness by virtue of being profane [syn: profaneness, unsanctification].

Unsatiability (n.) Quality of being unsatiable; insatiability. [Obs.]

Unsatiable (a.) Insatiable. [Obs.] -- Hooker. -- Un*sa"ti*a*ble*ness, n. [Obs.] -- Un*sa"ti*a*bly, adv. [Obs.]

Unsatiable (a.) 不能使滿足的;無饜的 Impossible to satisfy; "an insatiate appetite"; "an insatiable demand for old buildings to restore"; "his passion for work was unsatiable" [syn: insatiate, insatiable, unsatiable] [ant: satiate, satiated].

Unsatiate (a.) Insatiate. -- Dr. H. More.

Unsatisfaction (n.) Dissatisfaction. [Obs.] -- Bp. Hall.

Unsaturated (a.) 【化】不飽和的 Capable of absorbing or dissolving to a greater degree; as, an unsaturated solution.

Unsaturated (a.) (Chem.) Capable of taking up, or of uniting with, certain other elements or compounds, without the elimination of any side product; thus, aldehyde, ethylene, and ammonia are unsaturated; benzene has three unsaturated bonds. The term is applied most commonly to compounds with a double or triple bond between two carbon atoms (as in ethylene).

Unsaturated (a.) Not saturated; capable of dissolving more of a substance at a given temperature; "an unsaturated salt solution" [ant: concentrated, saturated].

Unsaturated (a.) Used of a compound (especially of carbon) containing atoms sharing more than one valence bond; "unsaturated fats" [ant: saturated].

Unsaturated (a.) (Of color) Not chromatically pure; diluted; "an unsaturated red" [ant: pure, saturated].

Unsaturation (n.) The quality or state of being unsaturated.

Unsay (v. t.) To recant or recall, as what has been said; to refract; to take back again; to make as if not said.

You can say and unsay things at pleasure. -- Goldsmith.

Unsay (v.) Take back what one has said; "He swallowed his words" [syn: swallow, take back, unsay, withdraw].

Unscale (v. t.) To divest of scales; to remove scales from.

[An eagle] Purging and unscaling her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance. -- Milton.

Unscapable (a.) Not be escaped; inevitable. [Obs.] -- Wyclif. Unsceptered

Unscathed (a.) 沒有受傷的,未受傷的 See {scathed}.

Unscathed (a.) Not injured [syn: {unharmed}, {unhurt}, {unscathed}, {whole}].

Unscathed (a.)  [After verb ]  未受傷的,無恙的 Without  injuries or  damage  being caused.

// Her  husband  died  in the  accident  but she, amazingly,  escaped  unscathed.

Unsceptered (a.) Alt. of Unsceptred.

Unsceptred (a.) Having no scepter.

Unsceptred (a.) Deprived of a scepter.

Unscience (n.) Want of science or knowledge; ignorance. [Obs.]

If that any wight ween a thing to be otherwise than it is, it is not only unscience, but it is deceivable opinion. -- Chaucer.

Unscrew (v. t.) To draw the screws from; to loose from screws; to loosen or withdraw (anything, as a screw) by turning it.

Unscrew (v.) Loosen something by unscrewing it; "unscrew the outlet plate."

Unscrew (v.) Loosen by turning; "unscrew the bottle cap" [ant: screw].

Unscrupulous (a.) 肆無忌憚的;不講道德的;無恥的 Not scrupulous; unprincipled. -- Un*scru"pu*lous*ly, adv. -- Un*scru"pu*lous*ness, n.

Unscrupulous (a.) Without scruples or principles; "unscrupulous politicos who would be happy to sell...their country in order to gain power" [ant: scrupulous].

Unscrutable (a.) Inscrutable. [R.]

Unscutcheoned (a.) Destitute of an escutcheon. [R.] -- Pollock.

Unseal (v. t.) To break or remove the seal of; to open, as what is sealed; as, to unseal a letter.

Unable to unseal his lips beyond the width of a quarter of an inch. -- Sir W. Scott.

Unseal (v. t.) To disclose, as a secret. [Obs.] -- The Coronation.

Unseal (v.) Break the seal of; "He unsealed the letter" [ant: seal].

Unseam (v. t.) To open the seam or seams of; to rip; to cut; to cut open. -- Shak.

Unsearchable (a.) Not searchable; inscrutable; hidden; mysterious.

The counsels of God are to us unsearchable. -- Rogers. -- Un*search"a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*search"a*bly, adv.

Unseason (v. t.) To make unseasoned; to deprive of seasoning.

Unseason (v. t.) To strike unseasonably; to affect disagreeably or unfavorably. [Obs.]

Why do I send this rustic madrigal, That may thy tuneful ear unseason quite? -- Spenser.

Unseasonable (a.) Not seasonable; being, done, or occurring out of the proper season; ill-timed; untimely; too early or too late; as, he called at an unseasonable hour; unseasonable advice; unseasonable frosts; unseasonable food. -- Un*sea"son*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*sea"son*a*bly, adv.

Unseasonable (a.) Not in keeping with (and usually undesirable for) the season; "a sudden unseasonable blizzard"; "unseasonable bright blue weather in November" [ant: seasonable].

Unseasonable (a.) Badly timed; "an ill-timed intervention"; "you think my intrusion unseasonable"; "an untimely remark"; "it was the wrong moment for a joke" [syn: ill-timed, unseasonable, untimely, wrong].

Unseasoned (a.) Not seasoned.

Unseasoned (a.) Untimely; ill-timed. [Obs.] -- Shak.

Unseasoned (a.) Not aged or processed; "unseasoned timber" [ant: seasoned].

Unseasoned (a.) Without salt or seasoning [syn: unsalted, unseasoned].

Unseasoned (a.) Not tried or tested by experience; "unseasoned artillery volunteers"; "still untested in battle"; "an illustrator untried in mural painting"; "a young hand at plowing" [syn: unseasoned, untested, untried, young].

Unseat (v. t.) To throw from one's seat; to deprive of a seat. -- Cowper.

Unseat (v. t.) Specifically, to deprive of the right to sit in a legislative body, as for fraud in election. -- Macaulay.

Unseat (v.) Remove from political office; "The Republicans are trying to unseat the liberal Democrat."

Unseat (v.) Dislodge from one's seat, as from a horse.

Unseconded (a.) Not seconded; not supported, aided, or assisted; as, the motion was unseconded; the attempt was unseconded.

Unseconded (a.) Not exemplified a second time. [Obs.] "Strange and unseconded shapes of worms." -- Sir T. Browne.

Unsecret (v. t.) To disclose; to divulge. [Obs.] -- Bacon.

Unsecret (a.) Not secret; not close; not trusty; indiscreet. [Obs.] "We are unsecret to ourselves." -- Shak.

Unsecularize (v. t.) To cause to become not secular; to detach from secular things; to alienate from the world.

Unsecure (a.) Insecure. [R.] -- Milton.

Unseel (v. t.) To open, as the eyes of a hawk that have been seeled; hence, to give light to; to enlighten. [Obs.] -- B. Jonson.

Unseem (v. i.) Not to seem. [Obs.] -- Shak.

Unseeming (a.) Unbeseeming; not fit or becoming.

Compare: Unbeseeming

Unbeseeming (a.) Unbecoming; not befitting. -- Un`be*seem"ing*ly, adv. -- Un`be*seem"ing*ness, n.

Unseemliness (n.) 不體面;不合禮節 The quality or state of being unseemly; unbecomingness. -- Udall.

Unseemliness (n.) A lack of consideration for others [ant: grace, seemliness].

Unseemly (a.) 不合適的,不適宜的;不得體的,不合乎禮儀的 Not seemly; unbecoming; indecent.

An unseemly outbreak of temper. -- Hawthorne.

Unseemly (adv.) In an unseemly manner.

Unseemly (a.) Not in keeping with accepted standards of what is right or proper in polite society; "was buried with indecent haste"; "indecorous behavior"; "language unbecoming to a lady"; "unseemly to use profanity"; "moved to curb their untoward ribaldry" [syn: indecent, indecorous, unbecoming, uncomely, unseemly, untoward].

Unseen (a.) [Z] 未看見的,未被覺察的;看不見的;未經準備的,即席的 Not seen or discovered.

Unseen (a.) Unskilled; inexperienced. [Obs.] -- Clarendon.

Unseen (a.) Not observed [syn: unobserved, unseen].

Unseen (n.) A belief that there is a realm controlled by a divine spirit [syn: spiritual world, spiritual domain, unseen].

Unseldom (adv.) Not seldom; frequently. [R.]

Unsely (a.) Not blessed or happy; wretched; unfortunate. [Written also unsilly.] [Obs.] -- Chaucer. -- Un*se"li*ness, n. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.

Unseminared (a.) Deprived of virility, or seminal energy; made a eunuch. [Obs.]

Unsensed (a.) Wanting a distinct meaning; having no certain signification. [R.] -- Puller.

Unsensible (a.) 沒有感覺的 Insensible. [Obs.]

Unsensualize (v. t.) To elevate from the domain of the senses; to purify. -- Coleridge.

Unseparable (a.) 分不開的;不可分離的[+from] Inseparable. [Obs.] "In love unseparable." -- Shak.

Unservice (n.) Neglect of duty; idleness; indolence. [Obs.] -- Massinger.

Unset (a.) 未堅固的;未裝配的;(太陽)未落的 Not set; not fixed or appointed.

Unsettle (v. t.) 使心神不寧;使動搖;使不安定;使混亂 To move or loosen from a settled position or state; to unfix; to displace; to disorder; to confuse.

Unsettle (v. i.) To become unsettled or unfixed; to be disordered. -- Shak.

Unsettle (v.) Disturb the composure of [syn: faze, unnerve, enervate, unsettle].

Unsettledness (n.) The quality or state of being unsettled.

Unsettlement (n.) The act of unsettling, or state of being unsettled; disturbance. -- J. H. Newman.

Unseven (v. t.) To render other than seven; to make to be no longer seven. [Obs. & R.] "To unseven the sacraments of the church of Rome." -- Fuller.

Unsew (v. t.) To undo, as something sewn, or something inclosed by sewing; to rip apart; to take out the stitches of.

Unsexed (imp. & p. p.) of Unsex.

Unsexing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Unsex.

Unsex (v. t.) 使失去性別特徵;使男性化 To deprive of sex, or of qualities becoming to one's sex; esp., to make unfeminine in character, manners, duties, or the like; as, to unsex a woman.

Unsex (v.) Deprive of sex or sexual powers.

Unsex (v.) Remove the qualities typical of one's sex; "She unsexed herself."

Unsex (v.) Make infertile; "in some countries, people with genetically transmissible disabilites are sterilized" [syn: sterilize, sterilise, desex, unsex, desexualize, desexualise, fix].

Unsexual (a.) Not sexual; not proper or peculiar to one of the sexes. -- De Quincey.

Unshackle (v. t.) To loose from shackles or bonds; to set free from restraint; to unfetter. -- Addison.

Unshakable (a.) 不可動搖的;堅定不移的 Not capable of being shaken; firm; fixed. -- Shak. J. S. Mill.

Unshakable (a.) Marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable; "firm convictions"; "a firm mouth"; "steadfast resolve"; "a man of unbendable perseverence"; "unwavering loyalty" [syn: firm, steadfast, steady, stiff, unbendable, unfaltering, unshakable, unwavering]

Unshakable (a.) Without flaws or loopholes; "an ironclad contract"; "a watertight alibi"; "a bulletproof argument" [syn: unassailable, unshakable, watertight, bulletproof].

Unshaked (a.) Unshaken. [Obs.] -- Shak.

Unshale (v. t.) To strip the shale, or husk, from; to uncover. [Obs.]

I will not unshale the jest before it be ripe. -- Marston.

Unshape (v. t.) To deprive of shape, or of proper shape; to disorder; to confound; to derange. [R.] -- Shak. Unshaped

Unshaped (a.) Alt. of Unshapen.

Unshapen (a.) 未成形的;畸形的;粗製的 Not shaped; shapeless; misshapen; deformed; ugly.

Unshapen (a.) Incompletely or imperfectly shaped; "unshaped dough"; "unshaped timbers" [syn: unshaped, unshapen].

Unsheathe (v. t.) 拔(劍等)出鞘;拔出 To deprive of a sheath; to draw from the sheath or scabbard, as a sword.

To unsheathe the sword, To make war.

Unsheathe (v.) Draw from a sheath or scabbard; "the knight unsheathed his sword" [ant: sheathe].

Unshed (a.) Not parted or divided, as the hair. [Obs.] -- Spenser.

Unshed (a.) 未流出的 Not spilt, or made to flow, as blood or tears. -- Milton.

Unshell (v. t.) 去殼;揭露 To strip the shell from; to take out of the shell; to hatch.

Unshelve (v. t.) To remove from, or as from, a shelf.

Unshent (a.) Not shent; not disgraced; blameless. [Obs.] -- Bp. Hall.

Unsheriff (v. t.) To depose from the office of sheriff. [R.]

Unshet (v. t.) To unshut. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.

Unshiftable (a.) That may not be shifted.

Unshiftable (a.) Shiftless; helpless. [Obs.]

Unshiftable  (a.) Not shiftable; shiftless; helpless.

Unshiftable (a.) Shiftless.

Unship (v. t.) 從船上卸貨;使下船;解下;去掉…… To take out of a ship or vessel; as, to unship goods.

Unship (v. t.) (Naut.) To remove or detach, as any part or implement, from its proper position or connection when in use; as, to unship an oar; to unship capstan bars; to unship the tiller.

Unshipment (n.) The act of unshipping, or the state of being unshipped; displacement.

Unshot (v. t.) To remove the shot from, as from a shotted gun; to unload.

Unshot (a.) Not hit by a shot; also, not discharged or fired off.

Unshout (v. t.) To recall what is done by shouting. [Obs.] -- Shak.

Unshroud (v. t.) 揭去……的覆蓋物;揭去……之屍衣 To remove the shroud from; to uncover. -- P. Fletcher.

Unshrubbed (a.) Being without shrubs.

Unshut, () See shut.

Unshut (v. t.) To open, or throw open. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.

Unshutter (v. t.) 打開……的窗板(或板門) To open or remove the shutters of. -- T. Hughes.

Unsight (a.) Doing or done without sight; not seeing or examining. [Colloq.]

Unsight unseen, A colloquial phrase, denoting unseeing unseen, or unseen repeated; as, to buy a thing unsight unseen, that is, without seeing it.

For to subscribe, unsight, unseen, To a new church discipline. -- Hudibras.

There was a great confluence of chapmen, that resorted from every part, with a design to purchase, which they were to do "unsight unseen." -- Spectator.

Unsightable (a.) 看不見的;無形的;微小得覺察不出的;不顯眼的 [+to];不露面的;暗藏的;【經】非貿易的;無形的;暗的 Invisible. [Obs.]

Unsighted (a.) 看不見的;被遮住視線的;(槍等)未裝瞄準器的 Not sighted, or seen. -- Suckling.

Unsighted (a.) (Gun.) Not aimed by means of a sight; also, not furnished with a sight, or with a properly adjusted sight; as, to shoot and unsighted rife or cannon.

Unsighted (a.) Unable to see; "a person is blind to the extent that he must devise alternative techniques to do efficiently those things he would do with sight if he had normal vision"-- Kenneth Jernigan [syn: blind, unsighted] [ant: sighted].

Unsignificant (a.) Insignificant. [Obs.] -- Holland.

Unsely (a.) Not blessed or happy; wretched; unfortunate. [Written also unsilly.] [Obs.] -- Chaucer. -- Un*se"li*ness, n. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.

Unsilly (a.) See Unsely. [Obs.]

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