Word.ws English Dictionary

untarred

untarred adjective: not tarred. Also the simple past and past participle of untar.

Adjective

untarred (not comparable)

  1. Not tarred.
    • untarred rope
    • When the untarred road ended, he turned into a footpath.2023, Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, A Spell of Good Things, Canongate Books, page 311

Also used as

untarred is also the simple past and past participle of untar.

Origin of untarred

From un- + tarred.

Questions about untarred

What does untarred mean?
Untarred means not tarred.
What part of speech is untarred?
Untarred is an adjective.

Words near untarred in the dictionary

  1. untarmacked
  2. untarnishability
  3. untarnishable
  4. untarnished
  5. untarnisht
  6. untarred
  7. untarried
  8. untarring
  9. untarrying
  10. untars
  11. untasked

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: untarred (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: “untarred.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/untarred. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.