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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

unfrank en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + frank.

Meanings

  1. Not frank.
    • That unknown, approaching thing, seemeth ever ill, my brother, which must have unfrank heralds to go before. 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or, The Ambiguities:
    • Hitherto I have lived a great deal too much apart from my sisters, partly from indolence, and partly from my unfrank disposition. 1926, Beatrice Webb, My Apprenticeship, published 1979, page 72:

Forms

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more unfrank Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most unfrank Degree=Sup lexicographic

Deriveds

unfrankness · unfrankly