unclassical

[ uhn-klas-i-kuhl ]

adjective

1. not classical; contrary to classical precepts.
2. Physics. (formerly) nonclassical ( def 2 ).

Other Words From

• un·classi·cal·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of unclassical¹

First recorded in 1715–25; un- ¹ + classical

Example Sentences

At dinner my classical friend did a rather unclassical thing.

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Keats's Greece seems somehow to be a Greece too full of modern colour, too unclassical.

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The standard of study is as high as in other unclassical schools, and every pupil has equal advantages of improvement.

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Then the unclassical evidence of the Bartlemy Fair folk at the "Crowner's quest."

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Messrs. Sale and Palmer translate the word here as meaning fighting, which is wrong, as it is unclassical and not literal.

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