Word.ws English Dictionary

unfletched

unfletched adjective: not fletched or feathered.

Adjective

unfletched (not comparable)

  1. Not fletched or feathered.
    • an unfletched arrow
  2. (figuratively) Synonym of unfledged (“of a person: not yet fully grown or mature; lacking experience, like a novice or tyro; immature, inexperienced”).
    • [W]hile knovvledge he did vvant, / Our unfletch'd Author, vvrit a VVild Gallant.1667 (revival performance), John Dryden, “Prologue to the Wild-Gallant Reviv’d”, in The Wild Gallant: A Comedy. […], In the Savoy [London]: […] T[homas] Newcomb for H[enry] Herringman, […], published...
    Synonyms:
    unfledged

Synonyms of unfletched

Origin of unfletched

From un- + fletched.

Words that rhyme with unfletched

2 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about unfletched

What does unfletched mean?
Unfletched means not fletched or feathered.
What part of speech is unfletched?
Unfletched is an adjective.

Words near unfletched in the dictionary

  1. unfleshes
  2. unfleshing
  3. unfleshliness
  4. unfleshly
  5. unfleshy
  6. unfletched
  7. unflex
  8. unflexed
  9. unflexes
  10. unflexibility
  11. unflexible

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: unfletched (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “unfletched.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/unfletched. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.