untanned
untanned adjective: not tanned.
Adjective
untanned (comparative more untanned, superlative most untanned)
- Not tanned
- by nature, his manner was not unrefined, his frame slender, and appeared the more so from the broad, untanned frontlet of his brow, tangled over with a disheveled mass of raven curls, throwing a still deeper tinge upon a complexion like that of a shriveled berry.1857, Herman Melville, chapter XXXVI, in The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade
Forms of untanned
| comparative | more untanned |
|---|---|
| superlative | most untanned |
Origin of untanned
From un- + tanned.
Words that rhyme with untanned
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- outstand
- overhand
- bestand
- gland
- secondhand
- unscanned
- disband
- grand
- offhand
- unmanned
- unplanned
- aband
- aland
- fanned
- firsthand
- lotus land
- lotusland
- misbrand
- planned
- redemand
- reland
- repand
- scanned
- shand
- tanned
- thirdhand
- withstand
- 2ndhand
- astrand
- at second hand
- banned
- counterdemand
- desand
- fand
- grande
- haircut band
- hand
- interstrand
- manned
- misunderstand
- multiplicand
- nonbrand
- operand
- overmanned
- overplanned
- panned
- preplanned
- rebrand
Questions about untanned
- What does untanned mean?
- Untanned means not tanned.
- What part of speech is untanned?
- Untanned is an adjective.
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