Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter U - Page 13

Undirect (v. t.) To misdirect; to mislead.

Undirect (a.) Indirect.

Undirected (a.) Not directed; not guided; left without direction.

Undirected (a.) Not addressed; not superscribed, as a letter.

Undirected (a.) Misdirected; misled; led astray.

Undirectly (adv.) Indirectly.

Undiscerning (n.) Want of discernment.

Undisclose (v. t.) To keep close or secret.

Undiscreet (a.) Indiscreet.

Undispensable (a.) Indispensable.

Undispensable (a.) Unavoidable; inevitable.

Undispensable (a.) Not to be freed by dispensation.

Undispensed (a.) Not dispensed.

Undispensed (a.) Not freed by dispensation.

Undisposedness (n.) Indisposition; disinclination.

Undisputable (a.) Indisputable.

Undistinctive (a.) Making no distinctions; not discriminating; impartial.

Undistinctly (adv.) Indistinctly.

Undivided (a.) Not divided; not separated or disunited; unbroken; whole; continuous; as, plains undivided by rivers or mountains.

Undivided (a.) Not set off, as a share in a firm; not made actually separate by division; as, a partner, owning one half in a firm, is said to own an undivided half so long as the business continues and his share is not set off to him.

Undivided (a.) Not directed or given to more than one object; as, undivided attention or affection.

Undivided (a.) Not lobed, cleft, or branched; entire.

Undividual (a.) Indivisible.

Undivisible (a.) Indivisible.

Undo (v. t.) To reverse, as what has been done; to annul; to bring to naught.

Undo (v. t.) To loose; to open; to take to piece; to unfasten; to untie; hence, to unravel; to solve; as, to undo a knot; to undo a puzzling question; to undo a riddle.

Undo (v. t.) To bring to poverty; to impoverish; to ruin, as in reputation, morals, hopes, or the like; as, many are undone by unavoidable losses, but more undo themselves by vices and dissipation, or by indolence.

Undock (v. t.) To take out of dock; as, to undock a ship.

Undoer (n.) One who undoes anything; especially, one who ruins another.

Undoing (n.) The reversal of what has been done.

Undoing (n.) Ruin.

Undomesticate (v. t.) To make wild or roving.

Undone () p. p. of Undo.

Undone (a.) Not done or performed; neglected.

Undouble (v. t.) To unfold, or render single.

Undoubtable (a.) Indubitable.

Undoubted (a.) Not doubted; not called in question; indubitable; indisputable; as, undoubted proof; undoubted hero.

Undrape (v. t.) To strip of drapery; to uncover or unveil.

Undraw (v. t.) To draw aside or open; to draw back.

Undreamed (a.) Alt. of Undreamt

Undreamt (a.) Not dreamed, or dreamed of; not th/ught of; not imagined; -- often followed by of.

Undress (v. t.) To divest of clothes; to strip.

Undress (v. t.) To divest of ornaments to disrobe.

Undress (v. t.) To take the dressing, or covering, from; as, to undress a wound.

Undress (n.) A loose, negligent dress; ordinary dress, as distinguished from full dress.

Undress (n.) An authorized habitual dress of officers and soldiers, but not full-dress uniform.

Undubitable (a.) Indubitable; as, an undubitable principle.

Undue (a.) Not due; not yet owing; as, an undue debt, note, or bond.

Undue (a.) Not right; not lawful or legal; improper; as, an undue proceeding.

Undue (a.) Not agreeable to a rule or standard, or to duty; disproportioned; excessive; immoderate; inordinate; as, an undue attachment to forms; an undue rigor in the execution of law.

Undueness (n.) The quality of being undue.

Unduke (v. t.) To deprive of dukedom.

Undulant (a.) Undulating.

Undulary (a.) Moving like waves; undulatory.

Undulate (a.) Same as Undulated.

Undulated (imp. & p. p.) of Undulate

Undulating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Undulate

Undulate (v. t.) To cause to move backward and forward, or up and down, in undulations or waves; to cause to vibrate.

Undulate (v. i.) To move in, or have, undulations or waves; to vibrate; to wave; as, undulating air.

Undulated (a.) Resembling, or in the nature of, waves; having a wavy surface; undulatory.

Undulated (a.) Waved obtusely up and down, near the margin, as a leaf or corolla; wavy.

Undulated (a.) Formed with elevations and depressions resembling waves; having wavelike color markings; as, an undulated shell.

Undulating (a.) Rising and falling like waves; resembling wave form or motion; undulatory; rolling; wavy; as, an undulating medium; undulating ground.

Undulation (n.) The act of undulating; a waving motion or vibration; as, the undulations of a fluid, of water, or of air; the undulations of sound.

Undulation (n.) A wavy appearance or outline; waviness.

Undulation (n.) The tremulous tone produced by a peculiar pressure of the finger on a string, as of a violin.

Undulation (n.) The pulsation caused by the vibrating together of two tones not quite in unison; -- called also beat.

Undulation (n.) A motion to and fro, up and down, or from side to side, in any fluid or elastic medium, propagated continuously among its particles, but with no translation of the particles themselves in the direction of the propagation of the wave; a wave motion; a vibration.

Undulationist (n.) One who advocates the undulatory theory of light.

Undulative (a.) Consisting in, or accompanied by, undulations; undulatory.

Undulatory (a.) Moving in the manner of undulations, or waves; resembling the motion of waves, which successively rise or swell rise or swell and fall; pertaining to a propagated alternating motion, similar to that of waves.

Undull (v. t.) To remove the dullness of; to clear.

Undulous (a.) Undulating; undulatory.

Unduly (adv.) In an undue manner.

Undumpish (v. t.) To relieve from the dumps.

Undust (v. t.) To free from dust.

Undwellable (a.) Uninhabitable.

Undwelt (a.) Not lived (in); -- with in.

Undying (a.) Not dying; imperishable; unending; immortal; as, the undying souls of men.

Uneared (a.) Not eared, or plowed.

Unearned (a.) Not earned; not gained by labor or service.

Unearthed (imp. & p. p.) of Unearth

Unearthing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Unearth

Unearth (v. t.) To drive or draw from the earth; hence, to uncover; to bring out from concealment; to bring to light; to disclose; as, to unearth a secret.

Unearthly (a.) Not terrestrial; supernatural; preternatural; hence, weird; appalling; terrific; as, an unearthly sight or sound.

Unease (n.) Want of ease; uneasiness.

Uneasity (adv.) In an easy manner.

Uneasiness (n.) The quality or state of being uneasy; restlessness; disquietude; anxiety.

Uneasiness (n.) The quality of making uneasy; discomfort; as, the uneasiness of the road.

Uneasy (a.) Not easy; difficult.

Uneasy (a.) Restless; disturbed by pain, anxiety, or the like; disquieted; perturbed.

Uneasy (a.) Not easy in manner; constrained; stiff; awkward; not graceful; as, an uneasy deportment.

Uneasy (a.) Occasioning want of ease; constraining; cramping; disagreeable; unpleasing.

Uneath (a.) Not easy; difficult; hard.

Uneath (adv.) Not easily; hardly; scarcely.

Unedge (v. t.) To deprive of the edge; to blunt.

Unefectual (a.) Ineffectual.

Unelastic (a.) Not elastic; inelastic.

Unelasticity (n.) Inelasticity.

Unelegant (a.) Inelegant.

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