Those which have acquired an opposed or contrary, instead of a merely negative, meaning; as, unfriendly, ungraceful, unpalatable, unquiet, and the like; or else an intensive sense more than a prefixed not would express; as, unending, unparalleled, undisciplined, undoubted, unsafe, and the like.

Those which have the value of independent words, inasmuch as the simple words are either not used at all, or are rarely, or at least much less frequently, used; as, unavoidable, unconscionable, undeniable, unspeakable, unprecedented, unruly, and the like; or inasmuch as they are used in a different sense from the usual meaning of the primitive, or especially in one of the significations of the latter; as, unaccountable, unalloyed, unbelieving, unpretending, unreserved, and the like; or inasmuch as they are so frequently and familiarly used that they are hardly felt to be of negative origin; as, uncertain, uneven, and the like.

Those which are anomalous, provincial, or, for some other reason, not desirable to be used, and are so indicated; as, unpure for impure, unsatisfaction for dissatisfaction, unexpressible for inexpressible, and the like.

Un- is prefixed to nouns to express the absence of, or the contrary of, that which the noun signifies; as, unbelief, unfaith, unhealth, unrest, untruth, and the like.

Inability.

Not able; not having sufficient strength, means, knowledge, skill, or the like; impotent' weak; helpless; incapable; -- now usually followed by an infinitive or an adverbial phrase; as, unable for work; unable to bear fatigue.

Disabled.

Inability.

The English name for a catboat; -- so called because Una was the name of the first boat of this kind taken to England.

Not abridged, or shortened; full; complete; entire; whole.

Not absorbable; specifically (Physiol.), not capable of absorption; unable to pass by osmosis into the circulating blood; as, the unabsorbable portion of food.

The quality of being unacceptable; unacceptableness.

Not acceptable; not pleasing; not welcome; unpleasant; disagreeable; displeasing; offensive.

Inaccessible.

Not accomplished or performed; unfinished; also, deficient in accomplishment; unrefined.

The state of being unaccomplished.

The quality or state of being unaccountable.

Not accountable or responsible; free from control.

Not to be accounted for; inexplicable; not consonant with reason or rule; strange; mysterious.

Inaccurate.

Inaccuracy.

Not used; not habituated; unfamiliar; unused; -- which to.

Not usual; uncommon; strange; new.

The quality or state of being unacquainted; want of acquaintance; ignorance.

Not acquainted.

Not usual; unfamiliar; strange.

Unacquaintance.

To render inactive or listless.

Inactivity.

Alt. of Unadmittable