unwhelmed

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English

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Etymology 1

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From un- +‎ whelmed.

Adjective

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unwhelmed (comparative more unwhelmed, superlative most unwhelmed)

  1. Not engulfed or submerged; (figuratively) not overcome with emotion.
    • 1872, William Watkiss Lloyd, The History of Sicily to the Athenian War; with Elucidations of the Sicilian Odes of Pindar, London: John Murray, Book 2, Chapter 6 “To Hiero of Syracuse (Second Pythian Ode),” p. 291,[1]
      For I, like the cork above a net, whilst the other tackle plies the sea-toil deep below, am still unwhelmed by the brine.
    • 1915, Ludwig Lewisohn (translator), Charlemagne’s Hostage, Act II, in The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann, New York: B.W. Huebsch, Volume 5, p. 300,[2]
      [] The old man with the look of one
      Drowning, who gave thy freedom unto thee—
      ’Tis he still breathing, still unwhelmed, who crosses
      Thy path once more to-day.
    • 1915, J. Redfearn Williamson, “Bernard Gilbert, Dialect Poet”, in The Manchester Quarterly[3], volume 34, page 71:
      Under the most favourable conditions dialects are destined to dwindle and decay, and we ought to be grateful to the writers who preserve for us a little longer old-time habits, customs and idiosyncracies in the folk speech of small communities as yet unwhelmed by the onrush of modern life.

Etymology 2

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Verb

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unwhelmed

  1. simple past and past participle of unwhelm