unmeet

English

Etymology

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

Adjective

unmeet (comparative more unmeet, superlative most unmeet)

1. (archaic) Not meet or proper.
   • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] , 2nd edition, (please specify |part=1 or 2), London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, (please specify the page):

     I have purposely omitted and left out some fond and frivolous gestures, digressing, and, in my poor opinion, far unmeet for the matter […] .

   • 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:

     […] 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.

   • 1851, Grace Aguilar, The Vale of Cedars‎^[1]:

     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.

   • 1867, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “May-Day”, in May-Day and Other Pieces, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, pages 14–15:

     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; […]

   • 1900, Ernest Dowson, Amor Umbratilis‎^[2]:

     I cast my flowers away,
     Blossoms unmeet for you!

   • 1915, James Branch Cabell, The Rivet in Grandfather’s Neck‎^[3]:

     There were many hideous histories the colonel could have told you of, unmeet to be set down, and he was familiar with this talk of pelvic anomalies which were congenital.

Derived terms

• unmeetly
• unmeetness

Translations

not proper

• Bulgarian: неподходя́щ (bg) (nepodhodjášt), неподобаващ (bg) (nepodobavašt)
• Russian: неподходя́щий (ru) m (nepodxodjáščij), несоотве́тствующий (ru) m (nesootvétstvujuščij)
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