Unhelp

noun, verb

noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Lack or absence of help uncountable

    "But the unhelp, the disobedience!"

Verb
  1. 1
    To undo or impede the help of. transitive

    "When I was a child, I remember my mom busily preparing for a dinner party, saying, "If you are not going to help me, then at least don't unhelp me.""

Example

More examples

"When I was a child, I remember my mom busily preparing for a dinner party, saying, "If you are not going to help me, then at least don't unhelp me.""

Etymology

Etymology 1

From un- + help.

Etymology 2

From Middle English unhelpe, equivalent to un- + help.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.