unfinished
/ʌnˈfɪnɪʃt/
unfinished adjective: not completed; unresolved.
Adjective
unfinished (not comparable)
- Not completed; unresolved.
- unfinished business
- unfinished creation
- Synonyms:
- incomplete, uncompleted
- Not having had any finish or finishing (such as coating or polishing) applied.
- unfinished furniture
- CONCLUSIONS. The action of the roads in reducing the rate on the finished cheap bedroom sets specified in their tariff below that on greatly more valuable finished furniture was, in our opinion, correct, and must be sustained. The same reason, however, that justified this action in reference to the...1893, Interstate Commerce Commission of the United States, “The Potter Manufacturing Company v. the Chicago & Grand Trunk Railway Company; the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad Company, and the...
- Not having had any finish carpentry and other finishing (such as painting) applied.
- unfinished basement
- unfinished attic
- Antonyms:
- finished, fitted out
unfinished meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Telugu
unfinished in Hindi
- unfinished
- असमाप्त asamāpt
unfinished in Urdu
- نامکمل, ناتمام
unfinished in Bengali
- অসমাপ্ত
unfinished in Telugu
- not finished
- పూర్తికాని pūrtikāni
More languagesFewer languages
- unfinished in Malayalam
- അപൂർണ apūṟṇa, അപൂർണം apūṟṇaṁ
- unfinished in Kannada
- ಮುಗಿಸದ, ಅಪೂರ್ಣ, ಅಸಮಾಪ್ತ
- unfinished in Gujarati
- અધૂરું adhūrũ
- unfinished in Sanskrit
- अनवपृग्ण anavapṛgṇa
Examples of unfinished in a sentence
- I had gazed on him while unfinished; he was ugly then; but when those muscles and joints were rendered capable of motion, it became a thing such as even Dante could not have conceived.1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], chapter IV, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], 1st edition, volume I, London...
- When actuated by selfish and vicious motives, I asked you to undertake my unfinished work; and I renew this request now, when I am only induced by reason and virtue.1831 October 31, Mary W[ollstonecraft] Shelley, “Walton, in continuation”, in Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus (Standard Novels...
- Holloway has unfinished business in the Premier League after relegation last year and he will make a swift return if he can overcome West Ham a week on Saturday.2012 May 9, John Percy, “Birmingham City 2 Blackpool 2 (2-3 on agg): match report”, in The Telegraph, archived from the original on 12 May...
- Shannon Downey goes for the unfinished stitching projects.2019 October 25, Konstantin Toropin, “A woman found an unfinished, 20-year-old quilt and complete strangers are helping piece it together”...
Synonyms of unfinished
Antonyms
Origin of unfinished
From un- + finished.
Words formed from unfinished
Questions about unfinished
- What does unfinished mean?
- Unfinished means not completed; unresolved.
- What is unfinished in Hindi?
- Unfinished in Hindi is असमाप्त (asamāpt). See Unfinished meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use unfinished in a sentence?
- I had gazed on him while unfinished; he was ugly then; but when those muscles and joints were rendered capable of motion, it became a thing such as even Dante could not have conceived.
- What part of speech is unfinished?
- Unfinished is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce unfinished?
- Unfinished is pronounced /ʌnˈfɪnɪʃt/.
Words near unfinished in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: unfinished (page history and authors); असमाप्त (Hindi) (page history and authors); unfinished (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); unfinished (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); അപൂർണ (Malayalam) (page history and authors); unfinished (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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