unsonsyadj.
Scottish and northern.
1. Luckless, unlucky, ill-omened, uncanny.
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the world > action or operation > adversity > calamity or misfortune > [adjective]
unseelyOE
ungraciousa1387
infortunatec1390
unhappy1390
haplessa1400
mischancefula1400
unfortunedc1403
infortuneda1413
maleurousa1460
infortunable?a1475
mal-infortunedc1475
unselc1480
mischanced1488
misadventurousa1500
unhap1509
misfortunate1510
mischancya1522
unuredc1525
maleureda1529
unlucky1530
unfortunate1548
luckless1563
unluckly1564
unfortunable1567
untoward1570
unable?1572
sinister1576
unsonsy1578
disaster1584
disastereda1586
disastrous1586
unweirdedc1590
wanhappy?1590
misbefallen1591
fortuneless1596
infelicious1598
misadventured1599
improsperous1602
untoward1632
unhandsome1640
ill-fated1715
donsie?1719
swarthy1756
infelicitous1835
bad luck1872
stiff1919
spooked1937
jinxed1972
1578 J. Rolland Seuin Seages 47 The Mairch [= marrow] heirof I sall declair The quhilk pertenis to ȝour vnsonsie Air.
1578 J. Rolland Seuin Seages 82 That may serue weill sic ane vnsonsie Sanct.
1683 G. Meriton York-shire Dial. (1684) 71 You are unsawncy, I think by my life.
1728 A. Ramsay Anacreontic on Love 32 He leugh, and with unsonsy jest, Cry'd,..Did not my arrow flie right smart?
c1771 S. Foote Maid of Bath ii. 28 My father was sae unsonsy as to gang out with Charley in forty-five.
1814 W. Scott Waverley III. xix. 282 At these unsonsy hours the glen has a bad name. View more context for this quotation
1897 W. Beatty Secretar xiv. 105 As unsonsy a place as I could have chanced on.
2. Unhandsome, plain.
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the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > [adjective]
unfairc888
unhonestc1384
unlovesomec1390
uncomelya1400
unfreelya1400
unlovelyc1400
unbeautiful1495
beautiless1531
unpretty1562
unhandsomea1586
loveless1601
featureless1609
invenust1623
unhighted?1630
unbeauteousa1660
plain1675
wanliesum1818
unbonny1830
ordinary1847
plainish1856
unsonsy1894
1894 S. R. Crockett Raiders xxi. 187 I'm nane so unsonsy yet, though I be auld eneuch to be the laddie's mither.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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