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untoiled en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + toiled.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Without hard work performed upon it.
    • Froude's description of the leisured life on the average Antillean homestead, where the soil brings forth fruit in abundance, untoiled, blends the prelapsarian world of genesis, golden-age mythology, and the description of the Cyclopes' island in The Odyssey […] 2010, Lorna Hardwick, Carol Gillespie, Classics in Post-Colonial Worlds, page 196: