inbon

Concepts

Pronounced as (IPA)
/ɛ̃.bɔ̃/
Etymology

Calque of English ungood, formed by the suffix in- (“un-”) + bon (“good”, adjective). Coined by Amélie Audiberti’s translation of Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), a dystopian novel by George Orwell.

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