unsifted
unsifted adjective: not having been sifted.
Adjective
unsifted (not comparable)
- Not having been sifted.
- If you bake with unsifted flour you don't know how much you are using because it might be packed down or very fluffy.
- Inexperienced; untried, unscrutinized.
- […] You speak like a green girl,
Unsifted in such perilous circumstance.c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac... - But each man’s understanding, such as it is, must be his guide; and he, who has not courage to make a free use of it, but obtrudes the opinions of others, unsifted and unexamined, on his readers, betrays more want of respect for their understanding, than diffidence of his own.1765, George Colman, The Comedies of Terence, Translated into Familiar Blank Verse, London: T. Becket & P. A. De Hondt, 2nd edition, 1768, Volume I, Preface, p. xxxii
- […] You speak like a green girl,
Origin of unsifted
From un- + sifted.
Questions about unsifted
- What does unsifted mean?
- Unsifted means not having been sifted.
- What part of speech is unsifted?
- Unsifted is an adjective.
Words near unsifted in the dictionary
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