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‘Un’ words can seem unforgivably lazy. First, we invent a treasure cave of words. Then, we just slap ‘un’ on a bunch of them and claim the opposite meaning. Voila! Forgiving. Unforgiving. Grateful. Ungrateful.

But, un words can also be unabashedly harsh. What are some of the most unencouraging un words?

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Unaffectionate
What more can you say about a word that lists synonyms like unkind and unfeeling?

Unamazed
Meh. Next?

Unbookish
Ill-read

Uncompassionate
Cold-hearted. Unsympathetic

Uncultured
The snobs have spoken: this person is uninformed, unsophisticated, unrefined, unworthy.

Uncute
See Merriam Webster’s devastating definition: ‘not cute. An uncute child’.

Ungenial
Not the slightest bit kind.

Unintelligent
Yet intelligent enough to feel the sting! Ouch.

Unmerchantable
Good luck selling that. Diagnosis: no buyers.

Unscrupulous
Unethical. Unprincipled

Unsee
Not what you want to hear after someone has looked at whatever it is you put out there.

Unwanted
😥

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Until we un again.

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