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Unred vs Unked - What's the difference?

unred | unked |

As adjectives the difference between unred and unked

is that unred is (uncommon) not red or unred can be not told while unked is (uk|dialect) odd; strange.

unred

English

Etymology 1

Adjective

  • (uncommon) Not red.
  • * 2003 , M. Estep, A Theory of Immediate Awareness: Self-Organization and Adaptation in Natural Intelligence , Springer, ISBN 1402011865, page 98
    • Nothing can be red and unred all over at the same time for the same viewer.

    Etymology 2

    , past tense and past participle of rede.

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Not told.
  • * 1596 (2010) , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, The Complete Poetical Works , Book IV, Canto XII, line 16, Bartleby
    • Then blame me not, if I have err’d in count / Of gods, of nymphs, of rivers yet unred :

    unked

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (UK, dialect) odd; strange
  • (UK, dialect) ugly
  • (UK, dialect) old
  • (UK, dialect) uncouth
  • (UK, dialect) lonely; dreary; unkard
    • Weston is sadly unked without you. — Cowper.
    (Webster 1913)