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untensed

untensed adjective: not tensed.

Adjective

untensed (not comparable)

  1. Not tensed.
    • The relevant point, though, is that there is a clear distinction between untensed and tensed clauses as far as the parasitic gap phenomenon is concerned[…]1993, William J. Ashby, Linguistic Perspectives on the Romance Languages, page 251

Origin of untensed

From un- + tensed.

Questions about untensed

What does untensed mean?
Untensed means not tensed.
What part of speech is untensed?
Untensed is an adjective.

Words near untensed in the dictionary

  1. untendered
  2. untenderized
  3. untenderly
  4. untenderness
  5. untense
  6. untensed
  7. untenses
  8. untensing
  9. untensioned
  10. untent
  11. untentacled

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