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unsweet

adj

Etymology

From Middle English unswete, from Old English unswēte (“unsweet; bitter; sour”), from Proto-West Germanic *unswōtī, from Proto-Germanic *unswōtuz (“unsweet”), equivalent to un- + sweet. Cognate with West Frisian ûnswiet (“unsweet”), Dutch onzoet (“unsweet”), German Low German unsööt (“unsweet”), German unsüß (“unsweet”), Swedish osöt (“unsweet”), Icelandic ósætur (“unsweet”).

  1. inherited from *unswōtuz✻ — “unsweet”
  2. inherited from *unswōtī✻
  3. inherited from unswēte — “unsweet; bitter; sour”
  4. inherited from unswete

Definitions

  1. Not sweet.

    • That each, who seems a separate whole, ⁠Should move his rounds, and fusing all ⁠The skirts of self again, should fall Remerging in the general Soul, Is faith as vague as all unsweet: […]
    • Again I sank in that repose unsweet, Again a clashing noise my slumber rent; […]

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA