uncollected

adj

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English collected English uncollected From un- + collected.

1. Not collected or gathered.

   “The barman glanced around in search of uncollected glasses.”

   “That trial, which began the same week as the elections that brought Margaret Thatcher to power, remains a symbol, to a certain sort of Englishman, of the societywide breakdown of the 1970s, which was a decade of currency devaluations, crippling strikes, uncollected garbage and shortened workweeks.”

2. Absent in mind; not having one's thoughts collected.