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unsunned

unsunned adjective: not having been exposed to the sun.

Adjective

unsunned (not comparable)

  1. Not having been exposed to the sun.
    • […] I thought her
      As chaste as unsunn’d snow.1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard...
    • […] but day by day
      Life brings you nothing new or bright:
      The bloom of boyhood dies away;
      And youth, unsunned by youth’s delight,
      Yields place to manhood tame and drear—
      Blank year succeeding to blank year.1878, John Addington Symonds, “In the Inn at Berchtesgaden”, in Many Moods: A Volume of Verse, London: Smith, Elder & Co., page 41

Origin of unsunned

From un- + sunned.

Questions about unsunned

What does unsunned mean?
Unsunned means not having been exposed to the sun.
What part of speech is unsunned?
Unsunned is an adjective.

Words near unsunned in the dictionary

  1. unsung
  2. unsung hero
  3. unsung heroes
  4. unsunk
  5. unsunken
  6. unsunned
  7. unsunny
  8. unsuperable
  9. unsuperannuated
  10. unsupercharged
  11. unsupercilious

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