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unrooved

unrooved is the rare form of unroofed.

Meaning of unroofed

Adjective

unroofed (not comparable)

  1. Not roofed, not having a roof.
    • Stone pillars had been raised, a number of them; they stood unroofed, forming a hall of pillars with only the heavens as ceiling, and on the plain beyond the sun was just rising, flaming red, over the edge of the world.1955, Thomas Mann, translated by Denver Lindley, Confessions of Felix Krull, Signet, published 1963, Book Three, Chapter VII, p. 254

Origin of unrooved

From un- + rooved.

Questions about unrooved

What is unrooved the rare form of?
Unrooved is the rare form of unroofed.

Words near unrooved in the dictionary

  1. unrootable
  2. unrooted
  3. unrootedness
  4. unrooting
  5. unroots
  6. unrooved
  7. unrope
  8. unroped
  9. unropes
  10. unroping
  11. unrosed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unrooved (page history and authors); unroofed (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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