undeluded

English

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 deluded

English undeluded

From un- + deluded.

Adjective

undeluded (not comparable)

1. Not deluded.
   • 1999, Seamus Heaney, “Introduction”, in Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page xxvii:

     There is an undeluded quality about the Beowulf poet's sense of the world that gives his lines immense emotional credibility[.]