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unrun

unrun adjective: not having been run.

Adjective

unrun (not comparable)

  1. 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

  1. unrumoured
  2. unrumple
  3. unrumpled
  4. unrumples
  5. unrumpling
  6. unrun
  7. unrung
  8. unrung a bell
  9. unrunnable
  10. unrupturable
  11. unruptured

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