unmightyadj.n.

Brit.

/(ˌ)ʌnˈmʌɪti/, U.S.

/ˌənˈmaɪdi/

Forms: see un- prefix¹ and mighty adj., n., and adv.

Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.

Etymology: Cognate with or formed similarly to Old Frisian unmachtich (West Frisian ûnmachtich ), Old Dutch unmahtig (Middle Dutch onmachtich , Dutch onmachtig ), Middle Low German unmechtich , Old High German unmahtīg (Middle High German unmehtec , unmehtic , German unmächtig ), Old Icelandic úmáttigr , all < the Germanic base of un- prefix¹ + the Germanic base of might n.¹ + the Germanic base of -y suffix¹. Compare ( < Middle Low German) Old Danish umægtug , Old Swedish omäktogher . Compare unmight adj., and (with the use as noun) earlier unmight n.²

Now somewhat rare.

A. adj.

a. Devoid of might or strength; weak, feeble; powerless, impotent.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > lack of power > [adjective]

unmightyeOE

weak1423

unmighta1450

unpowerful1611

dominionless1845

the world > life > the body > bodily constitution > bodily weakness > [adjective]

wokec897

unstronga900

unmightyeOE

feeblec1175

strengthlessc1175

unwieldc1220

weaka1300

frailc1384

unwieldyc1386

unthendec1425

dissolutec1450

unsure?a1475

feyc1475

simple1477

unfirm1483

unsinewed?1541

wash1548

weakling1557

ladylike1566

silly1567

water weak1592

washya1631

wankle1686

foible1715

unmuscular1725

nerveless1792

wankly1795

shilpit1813

wankya1825

sinewless1829

weedy-looking1835

queachy1859

insubstantiala1861

paper-backed1888

weak-fleshed1967

the world > health and disease > ill health > [adjective] > in state of ill health or diseased > weak

unmightyeOE

unferea1060

unwieldc1220

fade1303

lewc1325

weak1340

fainta1375

sicklyc1374

unwieldyc1386

impotent1390

delicatea1398

lowa1398

unmighta1450

unlustyc1450

low-brought1459

wearyc1480

failed1490

worn1508

caduke?1518

fainty1530

weak1535

debile1536

fluey1545

tewly?1547

faltering1549

puling1549

imbecilec1550

debilitate1552

flash1562

unable1577

unhealthful1595

unabled1597

whindling1601

infirm1608

debilitated1611

bedrid1629

washya1631

silly1636

fluea1645

tender1645

invaletudinary1661

languishant1674

valetudinaire?c1682

puly1688

thriftless1693

unheartya1699

wishy-washy1703

enervate1706

valetudinarian1713

lask1727

wersh1755

palliea1774

wankle1781

asthenic1789

atonic1792

squeal1794

adynamic1803

worn-down1814

totterish1817

asthenical1819

prostrate1820

used up1823

wankya1825

creaky1834

groggy1834

puny1838

imbeciled1840

rickety-rackety1840

muscleless1841

weedy1849

tottery1861

crocky1880

wimbly-wambly1881

ramshackle1889

twitterly1896

twittery1907

wonky1919

strung out1959

eOE King Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Otho) (2009) I. xv. 449 Ælc gesceadwis man mæg witan þæt [hi] bioð full earme and ful un [m] ihtige.

OE Ælfric Homily (Cambr. Ii.4.6) in J. C. Pope Homilies of Ælfric (1967) I. 403 Arrius hatte iu sum healic gedwola, se wolde lytlian þone leofan Hælend, þæt he unmihtigre wære on his mægenþrymme þonne se halga Fæder wæs on his godcundnysse.

lOE Homily: Gospel of Nicodemus (Vesp. D.xiv) in R. D.-N. Warner Early Eng. Homilies (1917) 85 Þu scealt beon untrum & unmihtig & mid eallen oferswiðed.

a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 35 He bicom unmihti and wreche and unhol.

a1350 in G. L. Brook Harley Lyrics (1968) 29 Middelerd for mon wes mad, vnmihti aren is meste mede.

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. xii. iv. 609 Þis bridde assailleþ onliche febil briddes and vnmyȝty.

c1440 (a1349) R. Rolle Eng. Prose Treat. (1921) 11 (MED) Honoure thy fadyre and þi modyre..þat þay be helpede and sustaynede..when þay are vnmyghtty of þaym selfe.

1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende f. 102^v/2 He was..so feble, and so unmyghty, that hys dysciples susteyned..hym in goyng to chirche.

a1500 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi (Trin. Dublin) (1893) 49 Whan þe grace of god..goþ away, þan shal he be poure & unmiȝty.

1540 R. Jonas tr. E. Roesslin Byrth of Mankynde i. f. xxxv Yf the matryce be vnmighty and weakened.

1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Impoderoso, vnmightie, vnpowerfull.

1752 H. Fielding Covent-Garden Jrnl. 14 Jan. 39 Billingsgate shall be acknowledged..to be a Fief of the low and unmighty Republic.

1876 W. Morris Story of Sigurd ii. 97 Myself a little fragment amidst it all I saw,..unmighty as the tempest-driven straw.

1906 H. W. Garrod Relig. of All Good Men 199 How poor in thought, how thin in sentiment, hollow in tone, meager of utterance, how unmighty, how unmagnificent most of it is!

1975 New Yorker 27 Oct. 129/2 Columbia's Delaney..had miserable luck with that damp ball against Yale—three successful passes for an unmighty twenty-six yards.

2009 Evening Standard (Nexis) 2 Feb. The unmighty quartet of Southend, Stoke, Ipswich and Middlesbrough.

b. Without strength, capacity, or fitness for a specified action; unable, incapable; unfit. With to or infinitive. archaic in later use.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > ability > inability > [adjective]

unmightyOE

unmightfulc1450

disablea1500

non-able1552

incapable1597

uncapable1627

matterless1794

OE Ælfric Lives of Saints (Julius) (1881) I. 236 Hwi come þu mid wæpnum..to anum mædene unmihtigum to wige.

c1225 (?c1200) Sawles Warde (Royal) (1938) 22 Nu is riht þenne þet we demen us seolf eauer unmihtie to weren & to witen us..wiðuten godes helpe.

?1387 T. Wimbledon Serm. (Corpus Cambr.) (1967) 106 He was vnmyȝti [c1450 Hatton vnmyty] to do good oþer euel.

a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) v. l. 1502 Thei withoute lyves chiere Unmyhti ben to se or hiere.

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. v. xxviii. 224 Alle þe hond is maad vnmyȝty to worche any workes.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 6706 Qua smites vte his thains eie, And mas him vn-mighti for-to seie.

a1475 tr. Gilbertus Anglicus Pharmaceutical Writings (Wellcome) (1991) 211 Tenasmon is whan a man haþ grete wil to shite, and is vnmiȝti þerto.

a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) cvi. §12. 381 Thai ware vnmyghty to stande agayn vicys.

a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 235 Who-so hath the Paas litill and Swyfte, he is suspeccious, of euyl will, on-myghty to werkys.

1581 J. Merbecke Bk. of Notes 993 They wenten out to the Paynims, shewing to them that their Images were no Gods, but mens workes vnmightie to saue themselues or any other.

1850 M. F. Tupper tr. King Alfred's Poems 95 They too are wretched and woefully poor Unmighty to do anything anymore.

1894 W. Morris & E. Magnússon tr. S. Sturluson Stories Kings of Norway II. cv. 179 Though I be unmighty to try masteries with thee, brother, yet will I seek otherwhere than to yeasay my lands from me as yet.

1922 E. R. Eddison Worm Ouroboros xxx. 374 Name him not so that was too unmighty to hold that land against our enemies.

†2. Impossible. Cf. unmight adj. 1. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > impossibility > [adjective]

unmightyOE

impossible1340

unpossiblea1382

unmightful?a1425

unfeasible1527

out of the question1607

card1813

unrealizable1832

irrealizable1853

inoperable1975

OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: Matt. xix. 26 Apud homines hoc inpossibile est apud deum autem omnia possibilia sunt : mið monnum ðis unmæhtig is mið god uutedlice alle mæhta uel eaðelico sint.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 9854 (MED) It were vnmihty be funden slike.

B. n.

With the and plural agreement. Unmighty people as a class; the weak, the powerless. Cf. mighty n. 2.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > lack of power > [noun] > people without power

unmightyc1475

weaka1616

c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 30 It is necesari to hem to visit þe sek, to pray for þe vnmiȝti.

1549 E. Allen tr. L. Juda Paraphr. Reuelacion S. John f. 33, in M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II Unto this dredfull and terrible iudgement of God shal come..all those whiche were deade, both masters and seruauntes, great and small, hyghe and lowe, myghtie and vnmyghtie, men and women, yong and olde, none excepte.

1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. Ep. Ded. sig. *i^v The welbeloued Sonne of God..must stande for all:..the mightie for the vnmightye.

1841 P. Macgregor Genuine Remains of Ossian 137 There the unmighty joyless dwell, All those who send not down their deeds To far, succeeding times.

1900 Sheffield & Rotherham Independent 3 Jan. 8/5 (headline) The seats of the unmighty. How the shopgirls are faring.

1963 J. B. Ludwig Confusions in Financial Times 12 Dec. 20/3 The point of my story's right here: Look on me, ye unmighty and live a little.

2008 www.seattletimes.com/uw-husky-football (Nexis) 10 Oct. Who would have expected this line a month ago when the Sun Devils were touted as the biggest threat to USC's dominance this season? How the unmighty have fallen.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	unmighty
释义	unmightyadj.n. Brit. /(ˌ)ʌnˈmʌɪti/, U.S. /ˌənˈmaɪdi/ Forms: see un- prefix¹ and mighty adj., n., and adv. Origin: A word inherited from Germanic. Etymology: Cognate with or formed similarly to Old Frisian unmachtich (West Frisian ûnmachtich ), Old Dutch unmahtig (Middle Dutch onmachtich , Dutch onmachtig ), Middle Low German unmechtich , Old High German unmahtīg (Middle High German unmehtec , unmehtic , German unmächtig ), Old Icelandic úmáttigr , all < the Germanic base of un- prefix¹ + the Germanic base of might n.¹ + the Germanic base of -y suffix¹. Compare ( < Middle Low German) Old Danish umægtug , Old Swedish omäktogher . Compare unmight adj., and (with the use as noun) earlier unmight n.² Now somewhat rare. A. adj. 1. a. Devoid of might or strength; weak, feeble; powerless, impotent. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of power > [adjective] unmightyeOE weak1423 unmighta1450 unpowerful1611 dominionless1845 the world > life > the body > bodily constitution > bodily weakness > [adjective] wokec897 unstronga900 unmightyeOE feeblec1175 strengthlessc1175 unwieldc1220 weaka1300 frailc1384 unwieldyc1386 unthendec1425 dissolutec1450 unsure?a1475 feyc1475 simple1477 unfirm1483 unsinewed?1541 wash1548 weakling1557 ladylike1566 silly1567 water weak1592 washya1631 wankle1686 foible1715 unmuscular1725 nerveless1792 wankly1795 shilpit1813 wankya1825 sinewless1829 weedy-looking1835 queachy1859 insubstantiala1861 paper-backed1888 weak-fleshed1967 the world > health and disease > ill health > [adjective] > in state of ill health or diseased > weak unmightyeOE unferea1060 unwieldc1220 fade1303 lewc1325 weak1340 fainta1375 sicklyc1374 unwieldyc1386 impotent1390 delicatea1398 lowa1398 unmighta1450 unlustyc1450 low-brought1459 wearyc1480 failed1490 worn1508 caduke?1518 fainty1530 weak1535 debile1536 fluey1545 tewly?1547 faltering1549 puling1549 imbecilec1550 debilitate1552 flash1562 unable1577 unhealthful1595 unabled1597 whindling1601 infirm1608 debilitated1611 bedrid1629 washya1631 silly1636 fluea1645 tender1645 invaletudinary1661 languishant1674 valetudinaire?c1682 puly1688 thriftless1693 unheartya1699 wishy-washy1703 enervate1706 valetudinarian1713 lask1727 wersh1755 palliea1774 wankle1781 asthenic1789 atonic1792 squeal1794 adynamic1803 worn-down1814 totterish1817 asthenical1819 prostrate1820 used up1823 wankya1825 creaky1834 groggy1834 puny1838 imbeciled1840 rickety-rackety1840 muscleless1841 weedy1849 tottery1861 crocky1880 wimbly-wambly1881 ramshackle1889 twitterly1896 twittery1907 wonky1919 strung out1959 eOE King Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Otho) (2009) I. xv. 449 Ælc gesceadwis man mæg witan þæt [hi] bioð full earme and ful un [m] ihtige. OE Ælfric Homily (Cambr. Ii.4.6) in J. C. Pope Homilies of Ælfric (1967) I. 403 Arrius hatte iu sum healic gedwola, se wolde lytlian þone leofan Hælend, þæt he unmihtigre wære on his mægenþrymme þonne se halga Fæder wæs on his godcundnysse. lOE Homily: Gospel of Nicodemus (Vesp. D.xiv) in R. D.-N. Warner Early Eng. Homilies (1917) 85 Þu scealt beon untrum & unmihtig & mid eallen oferswiðed. a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 35 He bicom unmihti and wreche and unhol. a1350 in G. L. Brook Harley Lyrics (1968) 29 Middelerd for mon wes mad, vnmihti aren is meste mede. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. xii. iv. 609 Þis bridde assailleþ onliche febil briddes and vnmyȝty. c1440 (a1349) R. Rolle Eng. Prose Treat. (1921) 11 (MED) Honoure thy fadyre and þi modyre..þat þay be helpede and sustaynede..when þay are vnmyghtty of þaym selfe. 1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende f. 102^v/2 He was..so feble, and so unmyghty, that hys dysciples susteyned..hym in goyng to chirche. a1500 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi (Trin. Dublin) (1893) 49 Whan þe grace of god..goþ away, þan shal he be poure & unmiȝty. 1540 R. Jonas tr. E. Roesslin Byrth of Mankynde i. f. xxxv Yf the matryce be vnmighty and weakened. 1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Impoderoso, vnmightie, vnpowerfull. 1752 H. Fielding Covent-Garden Jrnl. 14 Jan. 39 Billingsgate shall be acknowledged..to be a Fief of the low and unmighty Republic. 1876 W. Morris Story of Sigurd ii. 97 Myself a little fragment amidst it all I saw,..unmighty as the tempest-driven straw. 1906 H. W. Garrod Relig. of All Good Men 199 How poor in thought, how thin in sentiment, hollow in tone, meager of utterance, how unmighty, how unmagnificent most of it is! 1975 New Yorker 27 Oct. 129/2 Columbia's Delaney..had miserable luck with that damp ball against Yale—three successful passes for an unmighty twenty-six yards. 2009 Evening Standard (Nexis) 2 Feb. The unmighty quartet of Southend, Stoke, Ipswich and Middlesbrough. b. Without strength, capacity, or fitness for a specified action; unable, incapable; unfit. With to or infinitive. archaic in later use. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > inability > [adjective] unmightyOE unmightfulc1450 disablea1500 non-able1552 incapable1597 uncapable1627 matterless1794 OE Ælfric Lives of Saints (Julius) (1881) I. 236 Hwi come þu mid wæpnum..to anum mædene unmihtigum to wige. c1225 (?c1200) Sawles Warde (Royal) (1938) 22 Nu is riht þenne þet we demen us seolf eauer unmihtie to weren & to witen us..wiðuten godes helpe. ?1387 T. Wimbledon Serm. (Corpus Cambr.) (1967) 106 He was vnmyȝti [c1450 Hatton vnmyty] to do good oþer euel. a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) v. l. 1502 Thei withoute lyves chiere Unmyhti ben to se or hiere. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. v. xxviii. 224 Alle þe hond is maad vnmyȝty to worche any workes. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 6706 Qua smites vte his thains eie, And mas him vn-mighti for-to seie. a1475 tr. Gilbertus Anglicus Pharmaceutical Writings (Wellcome) (1991) 211 Tenasmon is whan a man haþ grete wil to shite, and is vnmiȝti þerto. a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) cvi. §12. 381 Thai ware vnmyghty to stande agayn vicys. a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 235 Who-so hath the Paas litill and Swyfte, he is suspeccious, of euyl will, on-myghty to werkys. 1581 J. Merbecke Bk. of Notes 993 They wenten out to the Paynims, shewing to them that their Images were no Gods, but mens workes vnmightie to saue themselues or any other. 1850 M. F. Tupper tr. King Alfred's Poems 95 They too are wretched and woefully poor Unmighty to do anything anymore. 1894 W. Morris & E. Magnússon tr. S. Sturluson Stories Kings of Norway II. cv. 179 Though I be unmighty to try masteries with thee, brother, yet will I seek otherwhere than to yeasay my lands from me as yet. 1922 E. R. Eddison Worm Ouroboros xxx. 374 Name him not so that was too unmighty to hold that land against our enemies. †2. Impossible. Cf. unmight adj. 1. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > impossibility > [adjective] unmightyOE impossible1340 unpossiblea1382 unmightful?a1425 unfeasible1527 out of the question1607 card1813 unrealizable1832 irrealizable1853 inoperable1975 OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: Matt. xix. 26 Apud homines hoc inpossibile est apud deum autem omnia possibilia sunt : mið monnum ðis unmæhtig is mið god uutedlice alle mæhta uel eaðelico sint. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 9854 (MED) It were vnmihty be funden slike. B. n. With the and plural agreement. Unmighty people as a class; the weak, the powerless. Cf. mighty n. 2. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of power > [noun] > people without power unmightyc1475 weaka1616 c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 30 It is necesari to hem to visit þe sek, to pray for þe vnmiȝti. 1549 E. Allen tr. L. Juda Paraphr. Reuelacion S. John f. 33, in M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II Unto this dredfull and terrible iudgement of God shal come..all those whiche were deade, both masters and seruauntes, great and small, hyghe and lowe, myghtie and vnmyghtie, men and women, yong and olde, none excepte. 1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. Ep. Ded. sig. i^v The welbeloued Sonne of God..must stande for all:..the mightie for the vnmightye. 1841 P. Macgregor Genuine Remains of Ossian* 137 There the unmighty joyless dwell, All those who send not down their deeds To far, succeeding times. 1900 Sheffield & Rotherham Independent 3 Jan. 8/5 (headline) The seats of the unmighty. How the shopgirls are faring. 1963 J. B. Ludwig Confusions in Financial Times 12 Dec. 20/3 The point of my story's right here: Look on me, ye unmighty and live a little. 2008 www.seattletimes.com/uw-husky-football (Nexis) 10 Oct. Who would have expected this line a month ago when the Sun Devils were touted as the biggest threat to USC's dominance this season? How the unmighty have fallen. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.eOE
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