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unmade

unmade adjective: that is not yet made. Also the simple past and past participle of unmake.

Adjective

unmade (comparative more unmade, superlative most unmade)

  1. That is not yet made.
    • On the most unmade bed imaginable sat two older Jewish men, both with black coats folded across their knees, bent close to each other […].1965, Frederic Morton, The Schatten Affair, page 180
  2. Having had its making undone.
  3. (UK) Without a hard, smooth, permanent surface.
    • [E]ven when it turned off the unmade road and went steeply upwards along an even more unmade track, I was still exhilarated […].1980, Blackwood's Magazine, page 505
    • It was an unexpected benefit to early rail investors that passengers had an appetite for travel, which up to then had been a tortuous experience on largely unmade roads and involving stays at coaching inns that provided variable amenities.2021 September 22, Industry Insider, “A new way of thinking”, in RAIL, number 940, page 92

Also used as

unmade is also the simple past and past participle of unmake.

Forms of unmade

comparativemore unmade
superlativemost unmade

Origin of unmade

From un- + made.

Words formed from unmade

Phrases with unmade

Words that rhyme with unmade

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Questions about unmade

What does unmade mean?
Unmade means that is not yet made.
What part of speech is unmade?
Unmade is an adjective.

Words near unmade in the dictionary

  1. unmacho
  2. unmad
  3. unmaddened
  4. unmadder
  5. unmaddest
  6. unmade
  7. unmade road
  8. unmade roads
  9. unmadeness
  10. unmagic
  11. unmagical

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