unmade

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ made.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -eɪd

Adjective

unmade (comparative more unmade, superlative most unmade)

  1. That is not yet made.
    • 1965, Frederic Morton, The Schatten Affair, page 180:
      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. (UK, of a road) Without a hard, smooth, permanent surface.
    Related terms: dirt road
    • 1980, Blackwood's Magazine, page 505:
      [E]ven when it turned off the unmade road and went steeply upwards along an even more unmade track, I was still exhilarated […].
    • 2021 September 22, Industry Insider, “A new way of thinking”, in RAIL, number 940, page 92:
      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.

Derived terms

Verb

unmade

  1. simple past and past participle of unmake

References

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