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unpared

unpared adjective: not pared.

Adjective

unpared (not comparable)

  1. Not pared.
    • Meanwhile he surveyed the room as minutely as if it had been a museum,--trying the rocking-chair, examining pictures, snapping vases with his unpared nails, opening costly books, smelling of scent-bottles, scanning the anti-Macassars and the Berlin-wool mats.1859, Various, Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 18, April, 1859
    • If unpared, wash and wipe each one to rub off the wool.1903, Helen Campbell, The Easiest Way in Housekeeping and Cooking

Origin of unpared

From un- + pared.

Questions about unpared

What does unpared mean?
Unpared means not pared.
What part of speech is unpared?
Unpared is an adjective.

Words near unpared in the dictionary

  1. unpardonable sins
  2. unpardonableness
  3. unpardonably
  4. unpardoned
  5. unpardoning
  6. unpared
  7. unparent
  8. unparental
  9. unparented
  10. unparenthesized
  11. unparenting

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