unborn
unborn adjective: not yet born; yet to come; future.
Adjective
unborn (not comparable)
- Not yet born; yet to come; future.
- Synonyms:
- coming
- Not yet delivered; still existing in the mother's womb.
- Ellen Page gives a star-making performance as a 16-year-old live wire who decides to go through with her pregnancy and seeks acceptably well-adjusted, wealthy, punk-rock loving parents for the unborn baby.2007 September 10, “Review: Jones, Coens, Penn highlight Toronto”, in CNN
- Existing without birth or beginning.
Noun
unborn (countable and uncountable, plural unborns)
- A single unborn offspring at any stage of gestation.
- Whereas the lack of a child brings shame upon Anna and Joachim, the converse holds true for Mary: the existence of an unborn in the womb of a woman who is supposed to be a virgin causes great scandal.2009, Catherine Playoust, Ellen Bradshaw Aitken, “The Leaping Child: Imagining the Unborn in Early Christian Literature”, in Vanessa R. Sasson, Jane Marie Law, editors, Imagining the Fetus: The...
- Unborn offspring collectively.
- Inheritance law allows property to be left to the unborn.
unborn meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
unborn in Hindi
- अजन्मे, अजन्मा
unborn in Tamil
- பிறக்காதவர், பிறக்காத, பிறக்காதவர்கள்
unborn in Urdu
- مستقبل, نازائیدہ
unborn in Bengali
- জন্মহীন
More languagesFewer languages
- unborn in Telugu
- పుట్టనిది, పుట్టని, జన్మించనిది
- unborn in Malayalam
- ജനിക്കാത്ത, ജനിച്ചിട്ടില്ലാത്ത, ഭ്രൂണാവസ്ഥയിലുള്ള, ഗർഭത്തിലുള്ള
- unborn in Kannada
- ಹುಟ್ಟದ, ಜನಿಸದ
- unborn in Punjabi
- ਅਣਜੰਮੇ
- unborn in Gujarati
- અજાત, જન્મ્યા વગરના
- unborn in Odia
- ଜନ୍ମହୀନ
- unborn in Nepali
- अजन्मा, गर्भहीन, अजन्मे
Examples of unborn in a sentence
- Now my unborn grandchildren will never get to enjoy this sedap dish with their multi-racial friends.
- Bear paws, for instance; duck feet, unborn mice, and in Canton, puppy dogs.
- For I reside just as much with the dead as with the unborn.
Synonyms of unborn
Forms of unborn
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Origin of unborn
From Middle English unborn, from Old English unboren, from Proto-Germanic *unburanaz. Equivalent to un- + born.
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Questions about unborn
- What does unborn mean?
- Unborn means not yet born; yet to come; future.
- What is unborn in Hindi?
- Unborn in Hindi is अजन्मे, अजन्मा. See Unborn meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is unborn?
- Unborn can be an adjective or a noun.
Words near unborn in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: unborn (page history and authors); unborn (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); unborn (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); unborn (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); unborn (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); unborn (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); unborn (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); unborn (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); unborn (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); unborn (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); unborn (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); unborn (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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