unmade

English

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 made

English unmade

From un- + made.

unmade (comparative more unmade, superlative most unmade)

That is not yet made.
- 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 […].
Having had its making undone.
(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.

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