Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word
unprintworthy. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word
unprintworthy, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say
unprintworthy in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word
unprintworthy you have here. The definition of the word
unprintworthy will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition of
unprintworthy, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.
English
Etymology
From un- + printworthy.
Adjective
unprintworthy (comparative more unprintworthy, superlative most unprintworthy)
- Not printworthy.
1981, Publishers Weekly, page 40, column 1:The risks taken by the purchasers, who might have found themselves with an unprintworthy loser about a loser, were minimal since their guarantees were low; but by prearrangement, further payments were called for when Reagan emerged the winner.
2000, Abby Frucht, “Doc”, in Polly’s Ghost: A Novel, Scribner, →ISBN, part three, page 210:Jenna’s always so smart, Becka wrote, her pen tangling itself on the unprintworthy “smarter than me.”
2013, Stephen Twilley, transl., The Story of My Purity, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, translation of Storia della mia purezza by Francesco Pacifico, →ISBN, page 109:As we were led past all that machinery, it felt as if we had returned to the nineteenth century, when ideas, to become strong, had to become physical, to knock down trees, be quantified in reams and sextodecimos and print runs; a place where the Internet didn’t exist and blogs—proliferating, immeasurable ideas—were dismissed as the unprintworthy’s delusions of grandeur.