unfirm

Other forms of unfirm

comparative

unfirmer·

superlative

unfirmest·

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 unfirm

What does unfirm mean?

unfirm means "not firmly or solidly positioned". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in unfirm?

unfirm has 2 syllables: un-firm. The stress falls on "un".

What is another word for unfirm?

Close synonyms include unsteady, shifting. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is unfirm a common word?

unfirm is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.