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unmasked en · ADJ · etymology 1

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 masked English unmasked From un- + masked.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Not wearing a mask on one's face.
    • And while the U.S. has seen concerts with scaled-down capacity, multiple artists have faced criticism after videos of largely unmasked crowds were shared on social media. 2020 August 18, Kat Moon, “Taiwan Just Had Its First 10,000-Person Arena Concert Since the Pandemic Began. Here’s What It Was Like to Be There”, in TIME, archived from the original on 16 Apr 2022:
  2. (not-comparable) No longer masked (from which a mask has been removed).
    • For example, the character might appear unmasked for a brief time, or until the user types another character[…] 2003, Cynthia Bloch, Annette Wagner, MIDP style guide for the Java 2 platform, micro edition:

Antonyms

masked

Synonyms

maskless

Translations (3)

ro nemascat (not wearing a mask) · fi maskiton (not wearing a mask) · pt desmascarado (not wearing a mask)

unmasked en · VERB · etymology 2

Meanings

  1. (form-of, participle, past) simple past and past participle of unmask
    form of unmask