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unfallen

unfallen adjective: not having fallen; that has not experienced or suffered a fall.

Adjective

unfallen (not comparable)

  1. Not having fallen; that has not experienced or suffered a fall.
    • The unfallen world beyond time remains as a background to the figured beats of the heart in our world of serial progression.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light:Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, page 10
    • For me, in any case, Ladakh seemed a beautifully unfallen place next to the blue-glass shopping malls of modern Lhasa, the global village of pizza joints and guesthouses that is urban Nepal, or long-isolated Bhutan with its chic new hotels.2009 March 13, Pico Iyer, “Heaven’s Gate”, in New York Times

Origin of unfallen

From un- + fallen.

Words formed from unfallen

Questions about unfallen

What does unfallen mean?
Unfallen means not having fallen; that has not experienced or suffered a fall.
What part of speech is unfallen?
Unfallen is an adjective.

Words near unfallen in the dictionary

  1. unfakeably
  2. unfaked
  3. unfalcated
  4. unfallacious
  5. unfallaciously
  6. unfallen
  7. unfallenness
  8. unfallible
  9. unfalling
  10. unfallowed
  11. unfalse

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