un-

短语

pref. 不, 不会的, 无, 未, 非 [医] 不

发音

CA /ʌn/
US /ʌn/
UK /ʌn/
AU /an/

别名

on-

释义与例句

affix
  1. 1.

    not

    un- + educated → uneducated (“not educated”)

  2. 2.

    lack of

    un- + conformity → unconformity (“lack of conformity”)

  3. 3.

    contrary to traditional norms; unconventional

    不-

    un- + conference → unconference

  4. 1.

    the inverse of a specified action

    un- + dress → undress (“to take one's clothes off”)

    un- + lock → unlock (“to undo the locking of”)

  5. 2.

    deprive of, release from, free from, remove from, extract from

    un- + cage → uncage (“to release from a cage”)

    un- + tangle → untangle (“to remove the tangling of”)

  6. 3.

    intensifying a verb that already suggests opposition or removal

    罕用

    un- + loosen → unloosen

    un- + decipher → undecipher

    un- + thaw → unthaw

  7. 1.

    Used for the digit one to form systematic element names of elements whose existence has been predicted, and which have not yet been given a trivial name.

    化学

    un- (“1”) + bi- (“2”) + un- (“1”) + -ium (element suffix) → unbiunium (“element 121”)

  8. 2.

    Used to form large numbers as the first in the sequence.

    un- + decillion (“10³³”) → undecillion (“10³⁶”)

    un- + vigintillion (“10⁶³”) → unvigintillion (“10⁶⁶”)

词源

From Middle English un-, from Old English un-, from Proto-West Germanic *un-, from Proto-Germanic *un-, from Proto-Indo-European *n̥-. Cognate with Scots un-, on- (“un-”), North Frisian ün-, Saterland Frisian uun-, West Frisian ûn-, on-, Dutch on-, Low German un-, on-, German un-, Danish u-, Swedish o-, Norwegian u-, Icelandic ó-. More distant cognate with Latin in-, Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-) (whence English a-, modern Greek α- (a-)) and Sanskrit अ- (a-). Doublet of in- and a-.

来源:wiktionary