Eath vs Uneath - What's the difference?
eath | uneath | Antonyms |
Easy; not hard or difficult.
*1600 , (Edward Fairfax), The (Jerusalem Delivered) of (w), XIX, lxi:
*:There, as he look'd, he saw the canvas rent, / Through which the voice found eath and open way.
*1609 , (Thomas Heywood), Troia Britanica, or Great Britain's Troy :
*:At these advantages he knowes 'tis eath to cope with her quite severed from her maids.
*1847 , (Hugh Miller), First Impressions of England and its people :
*:There has been much written on the learning of Shakespeare but not much to the purpose: one of our old Scotch proverbs is worth all the dissertations on the subject I have yet seen. "God's bairns", it says, "are eath to lear",.
Easily.
*1823 , J. Kennedy, Poems :
not easy; hard
* Spenser
(label) Not easily; hardly, scarcely.
*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:Who he was, uneath was to descry.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:Uneath may she endure the flinty streets.
(label) Reluctantly, unwillingly.
*, Bk.VII:
*:Ryght so Sir Launcelot departed with grete hevynes, that unneth he myght susteyne hymselff for grete dole-makynge.
Eath is an antonym of uneath.
As adjectives the difference between eath and uneath
is that eath is easy; not hard or difficult while uneath is not easy; hard.As adverbs the difference between eath and uneath
is that eath is easily while uneath is (label) not easily; hardly, scarcely.eath
English
Alternative forms
* (l), (l), (l) (Scotland)Adjective
(er)Antonyms
* uneath * difficultDerived terms
* (l)Adverb
(head)- Their food and their raiment he eith can supply.
Anagrams
* (l), (l), (l), (l), (l), (l)uneath
English
Alternative forms
* unneth * unnethe, unnethes * unethe, unethesAdjective
(head)- Who he was, uneath was to descry.