unnurtured

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

un- +‎ nurtured

Adjective[edit]

unnurtured (not comparable)

  1. That has not been nurtured.
    • 1827, Lydia Sigourney, Poems, Remonstrance of the Creek Indians, page 76:
      Dark are their brows, and wild they rove
      Unnurtur'd o'er their native earth,
      Yet deep their rugged bosoms love
      Their land of birth.