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unpursed

unpursed is the simple past and past participle of unpurse.

Meaning of unpurse

Verb

unpurse (third-person singular simple present unpurses, present participle unpursing, simple past and past participle unpursed)

  1. (transitive) To bring (one's lips) back from a pursed expression.

Adjective

unpursed (not comparable)

  1. Not pursed.
    • Obviously, verbal praise or encouragement should not be given without appropriate inflection of the voice and related facial expressions, and yet how often we hear these encouraging cliches fall from unpursed lips in an expressionless face.1975, George Daniel Spache, Good reading for the disadvantaged reader: multi-ethnic resources, page 14

Origin of unpursed

From un- + pursed.

Questions about unpursed

What does unpursed mean?
Unpursed means not pursed.
What is unpursed the simple past and past participle of?
Unpursed is the simple past and past participle of unpurse.
What part of speech is unpursed?
Unpursed is an adjective.

Words near unpursed in the dictionary

  1. unpurposing
  2. unpurposive
  3. unpurposively
  4. unpurposiveness
  5. unpurse
  6. unpursed
  7. unpurses
  8. unpursing
  9. unpursuable
  10. unpursued
  11. unpursuing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unpursed (page history and authors); unpurse (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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