unexercised
unexercised adjective: not having been subjected to physical exercise. Also the simple past and past participle of unexercise.
Adjective
unexercised (not comparable)
- Not having been subjected to physical exercise.
- Says Colonel Thomas Murray, chief Army psychiatrist in South Viet Nam: “Some of our psychiatrists are the most improbable military guys: soft, flabby, unexercised.”1969 October 10, “Dividend from Viet Nam”, in Time
- […] Lou was a respectful reader of the boy books that were emerging then, those magazines of black-and-white photos of teenagers with shaved chests, sucked-in if unexercised stomachs, and cloth posing-straps who stood on a dais silhouetted against a sunburst of seamless paper.1988, Edmund White, chapter 5, in The Beautiful Room is Empty, New York: Vintage International, published 1994
- Not having been exercised
- Shelby W. Bonnie, the former chief executive, agreed to reprice 700,000 unexercised shares, the company said yesterday in a statement.2007 January 30, Bloomberg News, “CNet Restatement Goes Back to 1996”, in New York Times
Also used as
unexercised is also the simple past and past participle of unexercise.
Origin of unexercised
From un- + exercised.
Questions about unexercised
- What does unexercised mean?
- Unexercised means not having been subjected to physical exercise.
- What part of speech is unexercised?
- Unexercised is an adjective.
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