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uncarpentered

uncarpentered adjective: not carpentered.

Adjective

uncarpentered (not comparable)

  1. Not carpentered.
    • It was […] not unusual for these shelves, which had to be improvised at short order, to be uncarpentered constructs variously and ingeniously propped, tied, glued and hanging off stone walls whose last dignity was to refuse to be screwed.2019, Niall Williams, This is Happiness, Bloomsbury (2020), page 319

Origin of uncarpentered

From un- + carpentered.

Questions about uncarpentered

What does uncarpentered mean?
Uncarpentered means not carpentered.
What part of speech is uncarpentered?
Uncarpentered is an adjective.

Words near uncarpentered in the dictionary

  1. uncaringness
  2. uncarnal
  3. uncarnate
  4. uncarnated
  5. uncarnivorous
  6. uncarpentered
  7. uncarpeted
  8. uncarriageable
  9. uncarried
  10. uncart
  11. uncarted

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