unprotective

1. 1.

   not affording protection

   Antonymsprotective

Questions about unprotective

What does unprotective mean?

unprotective means "not affording protection".

How many syllables are in unprotective?

unprotective has 4 syllables and divides as un-pro-tec-tive 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 unprotective?

The recorded antonyms are protective.

Is unprotective a common word?

unprotective 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.