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unfinal

unfinal adjective: not final; unresolved; inconclusive.

Adjective

unfinal (comparative more unfinal, superlative most unfinal)

  1. Not final; unresolved; inconclusive.
    • Huge French Revolutions, Napoleonisms, then Bourbonisms with their corollary of Three Days, finishing in very unfinal Louis-Philippisms: all this ought to be didactic! All this may have taught us, that False Aristocracies are insupportable; that No-Aristocracies, Liberty-and-Equalities are...1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “chapter I, Aristocracies”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book IV (Horoscope)
    • So this was suicide. How unfinal it appeared to be.1997, Thomas Mallon, Dewey Defeats Truman, Vintage, published 2013, →ISBN, page 329

Forms of unfinal

comparativemore unfinal
superlativemost unfinal

Origin of unfinal

From un- + final.

Questions about unfinal

What does unfinal mean?
Unfinal means not final; unresolved; inconclusive.
What part of speech is unfinal?
Unfinal is an adjective.

Words near unfinal in the dictionary

  1. unfilters
  2. unfilthy
  3. unfiltrable
  4. unfiltrated
  5. unfinable
  6. unfinal
  7. unfinalised
  8. unfinalized
  9. unfinanceable
  10. unfinanced
  11. unfinancial

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