unmeetly

English

Etymology

From unmeet +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation
  • (UK) IPA(key): /ʌnˈmiːtli/

Adverb

unmeetly (comparative more unmeetly, superlative most unmeetly)

  1. In an unmeet way; unbecomingly. [from 16th c.]
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
      they met / With a faire Mayden clad in mourning weed, / Upon a mangy jade unmeetely set […]
    • 1879, F. D. Morice, Pindar, chapter 3, p. 28:
      Yet there are noble passages in his later poems: and even the latest have their own peculiar charm of serenity and kindliness,—a tranquil sunset, as it were, succeeding not unmeetly to the fiery splendours of his noontide course.
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