Meanings
- not comparableNot historical; not based on history.
There still faintly beamed from the woman's features something of the freshness, and even the prettiness, of her youth; rendering it probable that the personal charms which Tess could boast of were in main part her mother's gift, and therefore unknightly, unhistorical.
1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 311 more example
If one is a liberal, one hopes that this political consciousness will eventually find less costly forms of expression […] But it would be unhistorical to bemoan the protesters' resort to violence […] Movements of social liberation just don't happen that way, much as we might wish they did.
1979 June 9, Paul Robinson, “Gays in the Streets”, in The New Republic
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
- Proto-Germanic*un-
- Proto-West Germanic*un-
- Old Englishun-
- Middle Englishun-
- Englishun-
- Englishhistorical
- Englishunhistorical
From un- + historical.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Dutch onhistorisch
- onhistorischnot historic
German unhistorisch
- unhistorischnot historic
Greek ανιστορικός
- ανιστορικός (anistorikós)not historic
Cite this entry
unhistorical. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unhistorical
“unhistorical.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unhistorical. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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