unmade en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English made English unmade From un- + made.
Meanings
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That is not yet made.
On the most unmade bed imaginable sat two older Jewish men, both with black coats folded across their knees, bent close to each other […].
1965, Frederic Morton, The Schatten Affair, page 180:
- Having had its making undone.
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(UK, of a road) Without a hard, smooth, permanent surface.
It was an unexpected benefit to early rail investors that passengers had an appetite for travel, which up to then had been a tortuous experience on largely unmade roads and involving stays at coaching inns that provided variable amenities.
2021 September 22, Industry Insider, “A new way of thinking”, in RAIL, number 940, page 92:[E]ven when it turned off the unmade road and went steeply upwards along an even more unmade track, I was still exhilarated […].
1980, Blackwood's Magazine, page 505:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most unmade | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more unmade | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |