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unstirred

unstirred adjective: that has not been mixed by stirring. Also the simple past and past participle of unstir.

Adjective

unstirred (comparative more unstirred, superlative most unstirred)

  1. That has not been mixed by stirring.
  2. Not stirred or emotionally excited.
    • Who, in after years, could supply a mother's place to the bereaved child, in whom affection's sweetest fountain must remain for ever unstirred?1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VIII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 74
    • Inadventurous, unstirred by impulses of practical ambition, I was capable of sitting twenty years teaching infants the hornbook, turning silk dresses and making children's frocks.1853, Charlotte Brontë, Villette

Also used as

unstirred is also the simple past and past participle of unstir.

Forms of unstirred

comparativemore unstirred
superlativemost unstirred

Origin of unstirred

From un- + stirred.

Questions about unstirred

What does unstirred mean?
Unstirred means that has not been mixed by stirring.
What part of speech is unstirred?
Unstirred is an adjective.

Words near unstirred in the dictionary

  1. unstintingness
  2. unstippled
  3. unstipulated
  4. unstir
  5. unstirrable
  6. unstirred
  7. unstirring
  8. unstirringly
  9. unstirs
  10. unstitch
  11. unstitchable

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