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unborrowed

unborrowed adjective: not borrowed.

Adjective

unborrowed (not comparable)

  1. Not borrowed.
    • "No wonder, then, that ever gathering volume from the mere transit over the widest watery spaces, the outblown rumors of the White Whale did in the end incorporate with themselves all manner of morbid hints, and half-formed fœtal suggestions of supernatural agencies, which eventually invested Moby...1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC

Origin of unborrowed

From un- + borrowed.

Questions about unborrowed

What does unborrowed mean?
Unborrowed means not borrowed.
What part of speech is unborrowed?
Unborrowed is an adjective.

Words near unborrowed in the dictionary

  1. unborn children
  2. unborne
  3. unbornness
  4. unborns
  5. unborrowable
  6. unborrowed
  7. unborrowing
  8. unbosom
  9. unbosomed
  10. unbosomer
  11. unbosomers

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