unregenerate

Questions about unregenerate

What does unregenerate mean?

unregenerate means "tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in unregenerate?

unregenerate has 5 syllables and divides as un-re-ge-ne-rate 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 another word for unregenerate?

Close synonyms include stubborn, obstinate, unregenerated, unreformable. 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.

What is the opposite of unregenerate?

The recorded antonyms are regenerate.

Is unregenerate a common word?

unregenerate 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.