Word.ws English Dictionary

unstrung

unstrung adjective: not strung; having had the strings undone or removed. Also the simple past and past participle of unstring.

Adjective

unstrung (not comparable)

  1. Not strung; having had the strings undone or removed.
  2. (informal) Emotionally upset; not able to keep it together.
    • Waking up in the small room, you feel dull, stupid, gloomy, oppressed, yawny, lax, and all unstrung in body and mind...1848, Orson Squire Fowler, A Home for All
    • “Why, Jane,” he cried, “what do you mean? What has our providential rescue to do with altering your feelings toward me? You are but unstrung—tomorrow you will be yourself again.”1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 183

Also used as

unstrung is also the simple past and past participle of unstring.

Origin of unstrung

From un- + strung.

Words formed from unstrung

Questions about unstrung

What does unstrung mean?
Unstrung means not strung; having had the strings undone or removed.
What part of speech is unstrung?
Unstrung is an adjective.

Words near unstrung in the dictionary

  1. unstructural
  2. unstructured
  3. unstructuredly
  4. unstructuredness
  5. unstruggling
  6. unstrung
  7. unstrungness
  8. unstubbed
  9. unstubbled
  10. unstubborn
  11. unstuccoed

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: unstrung (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “unstrung.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/unstrung. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.