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unsolid

unsolid adjective: not solid.

Adjective

unsolid (comparative more unsolid, superlative most unsolid)

  1. Not solid.
    • By this idea of solidity is the extension of body distinguished from the extension of space:--the extension of body being nothing but the cohesion or continuity of solid, separable, movable parts; and the extension of space, the continuity of unsolid, inseparable, and immovable parts.1690, John Locke, An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume I.
    • And equally unsolid is the argument that from a principle of gradation in races would reduce a principle of progress in races.1921, Theodore Graebner, Evolution

Forms of unsolid

comparativemore unsolid
superlativemost unsolid

Origin of unsolid

From un- + solid.

Words formed from unsolid

Questions about unsolid

What does unsolid mean?
Unsolid means not solid.
What part of speech is unsolid?
Unsolid is an adjective.

Words near unsolid in the dictionary

  1. unsolicited
  2. unsolicitedly
  3. unsolicitous
  4. unsolicitously
  5. unsolicitousness
  6. unsolid
  7. unsolidarity
  8. unsolidifiable
  9. unsolidified
  10. unsolidity
  11. unsolidly

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