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unput

unput adjective: undone or apart; in a state of disarray.

Adjective

unput (not comparable)

  1. undone or apart; in a state of disarray
    • I really don't know how it is that my clothes always manage to come unput. Other girls look as smart and neat as a new pin all the time; my dresses and overalls get on one side immediately; all my buttons come undone […]1932, Dikken Zwilgmeyer, The Little Northerners, page 196
    • Nevertheless, here it all was, cast, pressed and spun, with plastic handles, wooden handles or metal handles, warranted by optimistic manufacturers never to get too hot, and never to come unput.1947, Light Metals and Metal Industry, volume 10, page 263

Origin of unput

From un- + put.

Questions about unput

What does unput mean?
Unput means undone or apart; in a state of disarray.
What part of speech is unput?
Unput is an adjective.

Words near unput in the dictionary

  1. unpushes
  2. unpushily
  3. unpushing
  4. unpushingly
  5. unpushy
  6. unput
  7. unputdownability
  8. unputdownable
  9. unputdownableness
  10. unputrefiable
  11. unputrefied

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