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unmade

adjective

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Wiktionary

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 made English unmade From un- + made.

  1. That is not yet made.

    On the most unmade bed imaginable sat two older Jewish men, both with black coats folded across their knees, bent close to each other […].

  2. Having had its making undone.
  3. Without a hard, smooth, permanent surface.

    [E]ven when it turned off the unmade road and went steeply upwards along an even more unmade track, I was still exhilarated […].

    It was an unexpected benefit to early rail investors that passengers had an appetite for travel, which up to then had been a tortuous experience on largely unmade roads and involving stays at coaching inns that provided variable amenities.

verb

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 made English unmade From un- + made.

  1. simple past and past participle of unmake