unparliamentary

1. 1.

   so rude and abusive as to be unsuitable for parliament

   Similarimpolite

Questions about unparliamentary

What does unparliamentary mean?

unparliamentary means "so rude and abusive as to be unsuitable for parliament".

How many syllables are in unparliamentary?

unparliamentary has 7 syllables and divides as un-par-li-a-men-ta-ry 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.

Is unparliamentary a common word?

unparliamentary 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.