un·eath I. \“+\adjective Etymology: Middle English uneathe, from Old English unēathe, from un- (I) + ēathe easy — more at eath archaic: not easy : difficult, hard < who he was, uneath was to descry — Edmund Spenser > II. adverb Etymology: Middle English uneathe, from Old English unēathe, from unēathe uneasy archaic: not easily : with difficulty : scarcely < I uneath the fancy might control — S.T.Coleridge >