unmade
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -eɪd
Adjective[edit]
unmade (comparative more unmade, superlative most unmade)
- not (yet) made
- existing without having been made
- (UK, of a road) Without a hard, smooth, permanent surface.
- Related terms: dirt road
- 1980, Blackwood's Magazine, page 505:
- [E]ven when it turned off the unmade road and went steeply upwards along an even more unmade track, I was still exhilarated […].
- 2021 September 22, Industry Insider, “A new way of thinking”, in RAIL, number 940, page 92:
- It was an unexpected benefit to early rail investors that passengers had an appetite for travel, which up to then had been a tortuous experience on largely unmade roads and involving stays at coaching inns that provided variable amenities.
Quotations[edit]
- 1965, Frederic Morton, The Schatten Affair, page 180:
- On the most unmade bed imaginable sat two older Jewish men, both with black coats folded across their knees, bent close to each other […].
- 2005, Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, Human Creation Between Reality and Illusion, page 162:
- Even in the most unmade forms of art. one could discern an epistemology of art that is assumed on the same productivist parameters.
Verb[edit]
unmade
- simple past and past participle of unmake
References[edit]
- “unmade”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.