unmerry
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 12
- Words With Friends
- 14
- Letters
- 7
Definition of unmerry
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
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Not merry, the opposite of merry; sad, gloomy.
“"Yea, much," she said; "it seems joyous to me: and I shall tell thee that I have mostly dwelt in unmerry houses, though they were of greater cost than this."”
“But the Maiden, though she might hope the more to see her friend come back whole and sound, was unmerry at the tidings, she could scarce tell for why; neither did the Carline blame her therefore.”
“In an impassive 17th-century mansion in the Faubourg Saint-Germain Newman finds his prize possession an unmerry widow named Claire de Cintre.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Old English unmyriġe (“unpleasant”), from un- + myriġe (“pleasant”). By surface analysis, un- + merry.
Words you can make from unmerry
39 playable · top: MURREY (11 pts)
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