Meanings
adjectiveunbeleaguered (not comparable)
- not comparableNot beleaguered.
We had but one gate unbeleaguered, the Chapel Gate, leading to Choisy and the north-east. Now were we straitened for provender, notably for fresh meat, and men were driven, as in a city beleaguered, to eat the flesh of dead horses, and even of rats and dogs[…]
1896, Andrew Lang, A Monk of Fife
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
- Proto-Germanic*un-
- Proto-West Germanic*un-
- Old Englishun-
- Middle Englishun-
- Englishun-
- Englishbeleaguer
- Englishbeleaguered
- Englishunbeleaguered
From un- + beleaguered.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
APA
unbeleaguered. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unbeleaguered
MLA
“unbeleaguered.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unbeleaguered. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unbeleaguered,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unbeleaguered.
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