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unpent

unpent adjective: not pent or pent up, unconfined, released.

Adjective

unpent (comparative more unpent, superlative most unpent)

  1. Not pent or pent up, unconfined, released.
    • Not with the rage with which this whirlwind blows, Joust warring winds, north, south, and east, unpent.1831, William Stewart Rose, Orlando Furioso
    • And there, unpent by mountains, one saw the sky—the sky, not such a disc as one saw it here, but an arch of immeasurable blue, a deep of deeps in which the circling stars were floating...1911, H. G. Wells, The Country of the Blind, And Other Stories

Forms of unpent

comparativemore unpent
superlativemost unpent

Origin of unpent

From un- + pent. Compare Old English onpennad (“unpent, open”).

Questions about unpent

What does unpent mean?
Unpent means not pent or pent up, unconfined, released.
What part of speech is unpent?
Unpent is an adjective.

Words near unpent in the dictionary

  1. unpennied
  2. unpenning
  3. unpens
  4. unpensionable
  5. unpensioned
  6. unpent
  7. unpenurious
  8. unpeople
  9. unpeopled
  10. unpeopledness
  11. unpeoples

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