unmellowed

English

Etymology

un- +‎ mellowed

Adjective

unmellowed (comparative more unmellowed, superlative most unmellowed)

1. Not mellowed.
   • c. 1594, William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act II, Scene 4,^[1]

     Yet hath Sir Proteus, for that’s his name,

     Made use and fair advantage of his days;

     His years but young, but his experience old;

     His head unmellow’d, but his judgment ripe;

   • 1906, Lucy Maud Montgomery, “Clorinda’s Gifts” in The Epworth Herald, Volume 17, Number 29, 15 December, 1906, p. 732,^[2]

     I was afraid she would think it queer of me to give her such a present. And yet somehow it seemed to me that it was better than something brand new and unmellowed—that old book which father had loved and which I loved.

   • 1953, Arthur Miller, The Crucible, New York: Bantam, 1959, Act One, p. 1,^[3]

     The room gives off an air of clean spareness. The roof rafters are exposed, and the wood colors are raw and unmellowed.

   • 1970, Joyce Porter, Dover Strikes Again, New York: David McKay, 1973, Chapter Ten, p. 154,^[4]

     ‘What do you think he meant, moron?’ asked Dover, apparently quite unmellowed by Mrs Boyle’s medicinal whisky.