Meanings
comparative more unchivalrous · superlative most unchivalrous
- Not chivalrous.
Miss Porter was especially interested in everything I had to say about you, and asked many questions. I am afraid I took a rather unchivalrous delight in picturing your desire and resolve to go back eventually to your native jungle.
1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 731 more example
Unless one final Schlafly paradox gets in the way. Before she died, the First Lady of the Conservative Movement endorsed Trump. That makes sense: Schlafly was a paleoconservative who was worried about immigration. But Trump has turned out to be the most unchivalrous candidate in living memory, the very antithesis of Schlafly’s ideal Christian standard.
2016 September 6, Timothy Stanley, “How Phyllis Schlafly gave us Sarah Palin”, in CNN
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveoffensively discourteous
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
- Proto-Germanic*un-
- Proto-West Germanic*un-
- Old Englishun-
- Middle Englishun-
- Englishun-
- Englishchivalrous
- Englishunchivalrous
From un- + chivalrous.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Finnish epäritarillinen
- epäritarillinennot chivalrous
Hungarian lovagiatlan
- lovagiatlannot chivalrous
Cite this entry
unchivalrous. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unchivalrous
“unchivalrous.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unchivalrous. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unchivalrous,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unchivalrous.
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