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unworked

unworked adjective: yet to be altered, carved, milled, worked, or otherwise changed from its natural or crude state.

Adjective

unworked (comparative more unworked, superlative most unworked)

  1. Yet to be altered, carved, milled, worked, or otherwise changed from its natural or crude state.
    • For years there stood in the sculptor's studio a two-ton block of unworked Italian marble.
    Synonyms:
    unwrought
  2. Describing an unaltered material found associated with human tool-making or other cultural activity.
    • Dozens of unworked obsidian cobbles were found buried with the deceased.

Synonyms of unworked

Antonyms

Forms of unworked

comparativemore unworked
superlativemost unworked

Origin of unworked

From Middle English unwerked, unwerched, equivalent to un- + worked. Doublet of unwrought.

Words formed from unworked

Questions about unworked

What does unworked mean?
Unworked means yet to be altered, carved, milled, worked, or otherwise changed from its natural or crude state.
What part of speech is unworked?
Unworked is an adjective.

Words near unworked in the dictionary

  1. unworkability
  2. unworkable
  3. unworkableness
  4. unworkables
  5. unworkably
  6. unworked
  7. unworkedness
  8. unworker
  9. unworkers
  10. unworking
  11. unworkings

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