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unwaked

unwaked adjective: unawakened.

Adjective

unwaked (not comparable)

  1. Unawakened.
    • A stream ran out to meet the sea’s long moan, / Lulling with a soft burden of its own; / From bending branches breathed the fragrant air / Not rudelier than when a dreamer’s hair / Across a dreamer’s unwaked eyes is blown.1905 September 9, Edith M[atilda] Thomas, “The Place of Comfort”, in The Congregationalist and Christian World, volume XC, number 36, Boston, Mass.: The Pilgrim Press, page 337
  2. Not having had a wake or vigil.
    • […] so knitted into their lives has it become, so entirely a part of their thoughts, even of their very being, that to bury the dead unwaked is to commit a sacrilege beyond the power of description.1907, Macmillan's Magazine, volume 2, page 430

Origin of unwaked

From un- + waked.

Questions about unwaked

What does unwaked mean?
Unwaked means unawakened.
What part of speech is unwaked?
Unwaked is an adjective.

Words near unwaked in the dictionary

  1. unwaisted
  2. unwaited
  3. unwaivable
  4. unwakable
  5. unwakeable
  6. unwaked
  7. unwakeful
  8. unwakefulness
  9. unwakened
  10. unwakening
  11. unwaking

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