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unsailed

unsailed adjective: not sailed; not visited or explored by boat or ship.

Adjective

unsailed (not comparable)

  1. Not sailed; not visited or explored by boat or ship.
    • Now when I look back / On manhood's and on childhood's far-stretched track, / I see but a little child / In a green sunny world-home; there enisled / By another, cloudy world / Of unsailed waters all around him curled, / And he at home content / With the small sky of wonders over him bent […]1920, John Freeman, Poems New and Old
    • Fourscore years since, and come but one month more / The count were perfect of his mortal score / Whose sail went seaward yesterday from shore / To cross the last of many an unsailed sea.1917, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Poems & Ballads (Second Series)

Origin of unsailed

From un- + sailed.

Questions about unsailed

What does unsailed mean?
Unsailed means not sailed; not visited or explored by boat or ship.
What part of speech is unsailed?
Unsailed is an adjective.

Words near unsailed in the dictionary

  1. unsagacious
  2. unsage
  3. unsagging
  4. unsaid
  5. unsailable
  6. unsailed
  7. unsailorlike
  8. unsailorly
  9. unsained
  10. unsaint
  11. unsainted

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