Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
unmean en · ADJ · etymology 1
Etymology
From un- (“not”) + mean.
Meanings
(rare) Not mean (all senses).
They are so unmean, so just and so kind. 2014, Martin Bowman, Battlefield Bombers: Deep Sea Attack, page 8:
But this whole time, all you've been doing is judging me, making not unmean comments about my new friends, about the guys I'm dating, about how much I drink, go out—everything—as if you don't approve. 2008, Sherri Rifkin, LoveHampton, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 247:
The Age of Innocence is based on an Edith Wharton novel and set in the very unmean streets of upper-crust New York, circa 1870. 1999, Martin Scorsese, Peter Brunette, Martin Scorsese: Interviews, page 188:
So the tightrope these unmean men must walk drew taut. 2010, John Lennard, Of Sex and Faerie: Further Essays on Genre Fiction, page 65:
(rare) To reverse, cancel, or negate what was intentionally communicated.
I'd meant everything I ever said to her, and I didn't know how to unmean it. 2015, CD Reiss, Shuttergirl:
The play works to unmean meaning by a double dislocation. It uses expectation to undermine expectation both of everyday 'reality' and of theatrical genre. 2007, Ralph Yarrow, Franc Chamberlain, Sacred Theatre, page 114:
... just as Steinian non-sense derives its power to “unmean” from the rigidly semantic context of most discursive forms 2011, Maria Damon, Postliterary America: From Bagel Shop Jazz to Micropoetries, page 83: