unrun
unrun adjective: not having been run.
Adjective
unrun (not comparable)
- Not having been run.
- Cautious, indeed,—with that giant of Pytchley fame running neck to neck by him; cautious,—with two-thirds of the course unrun, and all the yawners yet to come; cautious,—with the blood of Forest King lashing to boiling heat, and the wondrous greyhound stride stretching out faster and faster beneath...1884, Ouida, Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida
- This leaning on 'reaction' in the naturalist account implies that, whenever we intellectualize a relatively pure experience, we ought to do so for the sake of redescending to the purer or more concrete level again; and that if an intellect stays aloft among its abstract terms and generalized...1909, William James, A Pluralistic Universe
Origin of unrun
From un- + run, the past participle of run.
Questions about unrun
- What does unrun mean?
- Unrun means not having been run.
- What part of speech is unrun?
- Unrun is an adjective.
Words near unrun in the dictionary
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