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unthumbed

unthumbed adjective: not thumbed.

Adjective

unthumbed (not comparable)

  1. Not thumbed.
    • At the end of his life he had become, on his own ground, as mellow as he was rich; he combined consummate shrewdness with the disposition superficially to fraternise, and his "social position," on which he had never wasted a care, had the firm perfection of an unthumbed fruit.1908, Henry James, chapter V, in The Portrait of a Lady (The Novels and Tales of Henry James; III), New York edition, volume I, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC...
    • Beside the table, bare except for the formal, unthumbed Bible, Mrs. Horowitz rattled out a paper, her near-sighted eyes traveling back and forth across the page.1918, Fannie Hurst, Gaslight Sonatas

Origin of unthumbed

From un- + thumbed.

Questions about unthumbed

What does unthumbed mean?
Unthumbed means not thumbed.
What part of speech is unthumbed?
Unthumbed is an adjective.

Words near unthumbed in the dictionary

  1. unthrowable
  2. unthrown
  3. unthrushlike
  4. unthrust
  5. unthuggish
  6. unthumbed
  7. unthumped
  8. unthwartable
  9. unthwarted
  10. untiable
  11. untick

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