unmeet

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Definition of unmeet

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (archaic)Not meet or proper.
    “I haue (purpoſelie) omitted and left out ſome fond & friuolous Ieſtures, digreſſing (and in my poore opinion) farre vnmeete for the matter[…].”
    “[…] O, my father! / Prove you that any man with me convers'd / At hours unmeet, or that I yesternight / Maintain'd the change of words with any creature, / Refuse me, hate me, torture me to death.”
    “Ferdinand himself gazed on her a moment astonished; then with animated courtesy hastily raised her, and playfully chid the movement as unmeet from a hostess to her guests.”
    “Where shall we keep the holiday, / And duly greet the entering May? / Too strait and low our cottage doors, / And all unmeet our carpet floors; […]”
    “I cast my flowers away, Blossoms unmeet for you!”
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adj

  1. (archaic)Not meet or proper.
    “I haue (purpoſelie) omitted and left out ſome fond & friuolous Ieſtures, digreſſing (and in my poore opinion) farre vnmeete for the matter[…].”
    “[…] O, my father! / Prove you that any man with me convers'd / At hours unmeet, or that I yesternight / Maintain'd the change of words with any creature, / Refuse me, hate me, torture me to death.”
    “Ferdinand himself gazed on her a moment astonished; then with animated courtesy hastily raised her, and playfully chid the movement as unmeet from a hostess to her guests.”
    “Where shall we keep the holiday, / And duly greet the entering May? / Too strait and low our cottage doors, / And all unmeet our carpet floors; […]”
    “I cast my flowers away, Blossoms unmeet for you!”

verb

  1. (transitive)To undo the process of meeting.
    “Tell him […] that I wish I could unmeet him because he’s on my brain so much it makes me feel crazy.”
    “But if I could unmeet him somehow, make all this unhappen, I would.”
    “I wish I could unmeet you, unread you, unknow you, unarrange my life around you.”
    “I wish I could unmeet you / Just so we can meet again.”
    “I wish I could roll back time so I could unmeet him, unsleep with him, unknow him, unlove him.”

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Etymology

From Middle English unmete, vnmete, unimete, from Old English unġemǣte, unmǣte (“immense, enormous; unsuitable”), equivalent to un- + meet (“fit, right”).

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