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unmeasured en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + measured.

Meanings

1. Not having been measured.
   • Recall the gradual dark the snow’s unmeasured fall The naked fields the cloud’s immaculate folds 1941, Theodore Roethke, “To My Sister”, in Open House, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, →OCLC; republished in The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke, London: Faber and Faber […], 1968, →OCLC, page 5:
2. Beyond measure; vast; measureless.
   • She [Diana] hath ſent (to plague vs) a huge ſauadge Boare, Of an vn-meaſured height and magnitude. […] His briſtles poynted like a range of pikes Ranck't on his backe: his foame ſnowes where he feeds His tuskes are like the Indian Oliphants. 1613, Thomas Heywood, The Brazen Age, […], London: […] Nicholas Okes, […], →OCLC, Act II, signature [C4], verso:
   • the unmeasured expanse of the ocean
3. Unrestrained; without moderation or deliberation.
   • the hasty, unmeasured speech of the defendant

Forms

Deriveds

unmeasuredly · unmeasuredness

Translations (7)

hi असीम (not measured) · gu અણમાપ્યું (not measured) · sv omätt (not measured) · hi अमित (not measured) · no umålt (not measured) · hi अपरिमित (not measured) · el άμετρος (not measured)