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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

unwork en · VERB · etymology 1

Etymology

From un- + work.

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To undo or destroy (work previously done).

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
unworks Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
unworked Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
unworked Tense=Past lexicographic
unworking Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
unwrought Tense=Past archaic lexicographic
unwrought Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part archaic lexicographic

unwork en · NOUN · etymology 2

Etymology

From un- + work.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The lack or absence of work; worklessness.
    • Collective bargaining has a crisis of "unwork" — that is, work which Justice Douglas once called "unwanted . . . totally useless." So much "unwork" clutters the table that collective bargaining is no longer able to do what it should: […] 1963 Jan, Life:
    • That comfortable philosophy which modern transcendentalism has but dimly shadowed forth — that poetic agrarianism, which gives all to each and each to all— is the real life of this city of unwork. 1892, John Greenleaf Wittier, The Prose of John Greenleaf Wittier: