unmade

English

Etymology

un- + made

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -eɪd

Adjective

unmade (comparative more unmade, superlative most unmade)

  1. not (yet) made
  2. existing without having been made

Quotations

  • 1965, Frederic Morton, The Schatten Affair, page 180
    On the most unmade bed imaginable sat two older Jewish men, both with black coats folded across their knees, bent close to each other […].
  • 1980, Blackwood's Magazine, page 505
    [E]ven when it turned off the unmade road and went steeply upwards along an even more unmade track, I was still exhilarated […].
  • 2005, Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, Human Creation Between Reality and Illusion, page 162
    Even in the most unmade forms of art. one could discern an epistemology of art that is assumed on the same productivist parameters.

Verb

unmade

  1. simple past tense and past participle of unmake

References

  • unmade in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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