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unmembered

unmembered adjective: lacking members; undifferentiated. Also the simple past and past participle of unmember.

Adjective

unmembered (comparative more unmembered, superlative most unmembered)

  1. Lacking members; undifferentiated.
    • Up to this stage, the inner nature of man is still an unmembered unity, void of manifoldness.1885, Friedrich Froebel, The Education of Man, page 28
    • There is something excessively clumsy in the heavy and unmembered side piers, in the exterior transition between the cupola and the square, and in the many squat buttresses.1887, Franz von Reber, History of Mediaeval Art, page 59
  2. Unremembered; lost to memory.
    • Perchance the unmember'd, unmemorial'd mass Of cold corruption that I tread upon May be a seraph with wild waving wings, And eyes whose intellectual fire outbeams The material splendors of the blue concave,1869, John H. Hanson, Poems of Rev. John H. Hanson, page 81
    • But the source is precisely that point where the rememberable and the immemorial (the sacred) meet, and the danger is thus that in remembering the source, the demigod may be tempted to transgress his earthly limits and aspire to know what cannot be recalled, to remember what is necessarily...1995, Ortwin de Graef, Titanic Light: Paul de Man's Post-romanticism, 1960-1969, page 14

Also used as

unmembered is also the simple past and past participle of unmember.

Forms of unmembered

comparativemore unmembered
superlativemost unmembered

Questions about unmembered

What does unmembered mean?
Unmembered means lacking members; undifferentiated.
What part of speech is unmembered?
Unmembered is an adjective.

Words near unmembered in the dictionary

  1. unmelted
  2. unmelting
  3. unmeltingly
  4. unmelts
  5. unmember
  6. unmembered
  7. unmembering
  8. unmembers
  9. unmemeable
  10. unmemorable
  11. unmemorableness

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