uncapped

Adjective

uncapped (not comparable)

1. Not capped (in various senses); not wearing or possessing a cap.
   • I struggling faintly, could not help feeling what I could not grasp, a column of the whitest ivory, beautifully streak'd with blue veins, and carrying, fully uncapt, a head of the liveliest vermillion1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC
   • From rolling plain where crumbling Tiber flows, / To fixed Soracte still uncapped with snow.1876, Alfred Austin, The Human Tragedy, page 255
2. Of honey, not having been sealed by bees with a wax cover in the cell.
   • "And I see over here you have buckets of honey you have gathered. It is uncapped, and liquid."2017, Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 110
3. Not having made an appearance in an international sports match.
   • there seems nothing very unusual about an uncapped 20-year-old English midfielder being asked to step up in the Champions League last-16 against Real Madrid.2020 August 7, Jonathan Liew, “Phil Foden stars to offer Manchester City glimpse of multiple futures”, in The Guardian
   • The jury is still out on their purchase of French defender Wesley Fofana, who cost £75m from Leicester in 2022 and has struggled with injury. He made his France debut in 2023 but remains, we think, the most expensive player to move clubs while uncapped.2024 July 24, Guardian sport, “Who are football’s most expensive uncapped players?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN