Meanings
adjectiveunilingual (not comparable)
- not comparablehuman sciencesKnowing or using a single language.
If you're black you've had to improvise communication with unilingual whites, she'd probably easily acquire this ancient one, too.
2012, Nadine Gordimer, No Time Like the Present, Bloomsbury, published 2013, page 46Synonyms: monolingual · Antonyms: multilingual, plurilingual
noununilingual (plural unilinguals)
plural unilinguals
- human sciencesA person who understands only one language.
Synonyms & antonyms
Also see
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*ís?
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁óynos
- Proto-Italic*oinos
- Old Latinoinos
- Latinūnus
- Latinūni-
- Englishuni-
- Proto-Indo-European*dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s
- Proto-Italic*dn̥ɣwā
- Latindingua
- Latinlingua
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
- Latinlinguāli
- Englishlingual
- Englishunilingual
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with unilingual
bilingualmultilinguallingualsublingualmonolingualtrilingualalveololingualambilingualanterolingualapicolingualaudiolingualaxiolingualbrevilingualbuccolingualcervicolingualcolingualcrosslingualdecalingualdentilingualdistolingualdorsolingualequilingualexolingualfaciolingual
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APA
unilingual. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unilingual
MLA
“unilingual.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unilingual. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unilingual,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unilingual.
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