unmeasured
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]unmeasured (comparative more unmeasured, superlative most unmeasured)
- Not having been measured.
- 1941, Theodore Roethke, “To My Sister”, in Open House; republished in The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke, 1975, →ISBN, page 5:
- Recall the gradual dark the snow’s unmeasured fall / The naked fields the cloud’s immaculate folds
- Beyond measure; vast; measureless.
- the unmeasured expanse of the ocean
- Unrestrained; without moderation or deliberation.
- the hasty, unmeasured speech of the defendant