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unenclosed

unenclosed adjective: not enclosed.

Adjective

unenclosed (comparative more unenclosed, superlative most unenclosed)

  1. Not enclosed.
    • Behind him the hills are open, the sun blazes down upon fields so large as to give an unenclosed character to the landscape, the lanes are white, the hedges low and plashed, the atmosphere colourless.1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 14
  2. Relating to the exposure of elements that are typically unexposed.
    • The body of a flatbed is commonly unenclosed.

Forms of unenclosed

comparativemore unenclosed
superlativemost unenclosed

Origin of unenclosed

From un- + enclosed.

Words formed from unenclosed

Questions about unenclosed

What does unenclosed mean?
Unenclosed means not enclosed.
What part of speech is unenclosed?
Unenclosed is an adjective.

Words near unenclosed in the dictionary

  1. unenchanting
  2. unenchants
  3. unenciphered
  4. unencircled
  5. unenclaved
  6. unenclosed
  7. unenclosedness
  8. unencodable
  9. unencode
  10. unencoded
  11. unencodes

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