unfasten

Other forms of unfasten

past tense

unfastenned·

present participle

unfastenning·

third person

unfastens·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about unfasten

What does unfasten mean?

unfasten means "cause to become undone". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in unfasten?

unfasten has 3 syllables and divides as un-fa-sten under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is the opposite of unfasten?

The recorded antonyms are fasten, fasten.

Is unfasten a common word?

unfasten is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.