What does unpatriotic mean?
Word: Unpatriotic
Part of Speech: Adjective
Meaning: Unpatriotic means not showing love for your country or support for it.
Antonyms: patriotic
How do you spell unpatriotic?
Syllables: un - pa - tri - ot - ic
Tricky part: Patriot ends in -iot, and students often write -iat or lose the o: unpatriatic, unpatrotic.
Watch out for: unpatriatic, unpatrotic, unpatreotic
Memory tip: Patriot ends just like riot, with an i and then an o; keep that o in unpatriotic.
Unpatriotic in a sentence
Example 1: Throwing litter around a national monument is careless and unpatriotic.
Example 2: Some fans called the player unpatriotic for missing the national camp, but he was actually sitting a university exam.
Example 3: Grandpa thinks it is unpatriotic to waste water that the whole country depends on.
Fun Fact
Patriot goes back through French and Latin to the Greek patris, meaning fatherland.
Practise the CREST Way
Mingle-Mangle
Unjumble the letters in the sentence to form a meaningful word:
Leaving the national flag lying in the mud after the parade would be a deeply iupcartiotn thing to do.
a) unrealistic
b) unromantic
c) unpatriotic
d) patriotic
Show answer
c) unpatriotic. Find patriot in the jumble and add -ic and un-: all eleven letters are used, while patriotic would leave a u and an n over.
Word Cookie
One word in this sentence is misspelt. Find it:
Our history teacher told us that damaging public property is unpatriotic, because every bench and streetlight in the park is paid for by families like our parants.
a) parants
b) streetlight
c) unpatriotic
d) property
Show answer
a) parants. Parent ends in -ent, so its plural is parents.
Word Connection
Choose the antonym of the word unpatriotic as used in the sentence:
Dumping plastic into the river during the town fair was called unpatriotic by the elders of the town.
a) unfaithful
b) thoughtless
c) careless
d) loyal
Show answer
d) loyal. Letting your country down is the reverse of standing by it, which is what a loyal citizen does.
Spell-o-Spell
Read the four words. Choose the meaning of the only correctly spelt word:
1. constitusion 2. democracey 3. unpatriotic 4. sovereignity
a) failing to support or stand by your own country
b) a country's full power to govern itself
c) the set of basic laws by which a country is run
d) government by the people through elected leaders
Show answer
a) failing to support or stand by your own country. Sovereignty has no i after the g, democracy ends in plain -cy, and constitution spells its ending -tion.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which act would most people call unpatriotic?
a) chatting loudly through the national anthem
b) standing still for the national anthem
c) cheering for the national team
d) voting in a general election
Show answer
a) chatting loudly through the national anthem
2. A villager who calls a plan unpatriotic believes it ____.
a) was made too quickly
b) is too hard to carry out
c) would harm the country
d) would cost too much
Show answer
c) would harm the country
