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untopped

untopped adjective: not having had the top cut off. Also the simple past and past participle of untop.

Adjective

untopped (not comparable)

  1. Not having had the top cut off.
    • Recently, there is commercial interest in planting trellised, untopped trees for earlier production in slow-growing regions such as the Western Cape.2010, Craig Macaskill, editor, The National Agricultural Directory 2011, page 168
  2. Not covered with a topping.
    • In a Paris pizzeria, I watched rounds of pliable, untopped pizza dough get tossed into a very hot wood-burning oven and emerge puffed up, to be sprinkled simply with olive oil and salt.2000, Beth Hensperger, The Bread Lover's Bread Machine Cookbook
  3. Unsurpassed.
    • Thucydides, writing many centuries ago, averred that men usually embark on wars of conquest out of an aspiration for power, wealth, or out of fear. This statement is still untopped in its concision and aptness.1988, Zvi Yavetz, Slaves and Slavery in Ancient Rome, page 5

Also used as

untopped is also the simple past and past participle of untop.

Origin of untopped

From un- + topped.

Questions about untopped

What does untopped mean?
Untopped means not having had the top cut off.
What part of speech is untopped?
Untopped is an adjective.

Words near untopped in the dictionary

  1. untop
  2. untopia
  3. untopical
  4. untopographical
  5. untoppable
  6. untopped
  7. untopping
  8. untoppled
  9. untops
  10. untorched
  11. untormented

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