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unclassed

unclassed adjective: not assigned a class.

Adjective

unclassed (not comparable)

  1. Not assigned a class.
    • If for centuries, this particular animal is known to attack only one kind of other animal, are we not justified in assuming that when one of them attacks a hitherto unclassed animal, he recognises in that animal some quality which it has in common with the hereditary enemy?"1911, Bram Stoker, The Lair of the White Worm
    • It may perhaps be thought by some that this movement represented on a higher plane that love of distruction, or, as we should better say, that spirit of revolt and aspiration, which Simmel finds to mark the intellectual and artistic activity of those who are unclassed or dubiously classed in the...1927, Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 (of 6)

Origin of unclassed

From un- + classed.

Questions about unclassed

What does unclassed mean?
Unclassed means not assigned a class.
What part of speech is unclassed?
Unclassed is an adjective.

Words near unclassed in the dictionary

  1. unclasped
  2. unclasping
  3. unclaspings
  4. unclasps
  5. unclassable
  6. unclassed
  7. unclassible
  8. unclassic
  9. unclassical
  10. unclassically
  11. unclassifiability

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