unmeasured

English

Etymology

From un- + measured.

Adjective

unmeasured (comparative more unmeasured, superlative most unmeasured)

1. Not having been measured.
   • 1941, Theodore Roethke, “To My Sister”, in Open House, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, →OCLC; republished in The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke, London: Faber and Faber […], 1968, →OCLC, page 5:

     Recall the gradual dark the snow’s unmeasured fall
     The naked fields the cloud’s immaculate folds

2. Beyond measure; vast; measureless.

   the unmeasured expanse of the ocean

   • 1613, Thomas Heywood, The Brazen Age, […], London: […] Nicholas Okes, […], →OCLC, Act II, signature [C4], verso:

     She [Diana] hath ſent (to plague vs) a huge ſauadge Boare,
     Of an vn-meaſured height and magnitude.
     […]
     His briſtles poynted like a range of pikes
     Ranck't on his backe: his foame ſnowes where he feeds
     His tuskes are like the Indian Oliphants.

3. Unrestrained; without moderation or deliberation.

   the hasty, unmeasured speech of the defendant

Derived terms

• unmeasuredly
• unmeasuredness

Translations

not measured

• Greek: άμετρος (el) (ámetros)
• Gujarati: અણમાપ્યું (aṇamāpyũ)
• Hindi: अमित (hi) (amit), असीम (hi) (asīm), अपरिमित (hi) (aprimit)
• Norwegian: umålt
• Swedish: omätt