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unmellowed

unmellowed adjective: not mellowed.

Adjective

unmellowed (comparative more unmellowed, superlative most unmellowed)

  1. Not mellowed.
    • Yet hath Sir Proteus, for that’s his name,
      Made use and fair advantage of his days;
      His years but young, but his experience old;
      His head unmellow’d, but his judgment ripe;c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
    • I was afraid she would think it queer of me to give her such a present. And yet somehow it seemed to me that it was better than something brand new and unmellowed—that old book which father had loved and which I loved.1906 December 15, Lucy Maud Montgomery, “Clorinda’s Gifts”, in The Epworth Herald, volume 17, number 29, page 732

Examples of unmellowed in a sentence

  • The roof rafters are exposed, and the wood colors are raw and unmellowed.1953, Arthur Miller, The Crucible, New York: Bantam, published 1959, act 1, page 1:
  • ‘What do you think he meant, moron?’ asked Dover, apparently quite unmellowed by Mrs Boyle’s medicinal whisky.1970, Joyce Porter, chapter 10, in Dover Strikes Again, New York: David McKay, published 1973, page 154:

Forms of unmellowed

comparativemore unmellowed
superlativemost unmellowed

Origin of unmellowed

From un- + mellowed.

Questions about unmellowed

What does unmellowed mean?
Unmellowed means not mellowed.
How do you use unmellowed in a sentence?
The roof rafters are exposed, and the wood colors are raw and unmellowed.
What part of speech is unmellowed?
Unmellowed is an adjective.

Words near unmellowed in the dictionary

  1. unmelanized
  2. unmelded
  3. unmeliorated
  4. unmellifluous
  5. unmellow
  6. unmellowed
  7. unmellowing
  8. unmelodic
  9. unmelodically
  10. unmelodious
  11. unmelodiously

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