unwatered en · ADJ
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 watered English unwatered From un- + watered.
Meanings
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(not-comparable, of a plant or animal) Not watered. ▸ Lacking water: not having been provided with drinking water, etc.
Three years later, the unwatered cactus was still about two feet tall, a dark green color. The watered cactus was a paler green, its trunk visibly swollen with moisture. It had grown to be over five feet tall.
2013, Leslie Morgan Steiner, The Baby Chase:One of your highest duties as a farmhand is to make sure that no livestock goes unwatered, even when things go wrong with the equipment.
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(not-comparable, of a geological feature or area) Not watered. ▸ Not having any surface water: no bodies of water and little to no rain.
an unwatered valley
an unwatered plain
Coordinates
underwatered · unfed · overwatered
Relateds
nonwatery · nonwater · waterless · waterlessly · waterlessness · unwatery
Translations (3)
gv neu-ushtit (not watered) · ar بَعْلِيّ (not watered) · el ανέρωτος (not watered)