unmade

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ made.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪd

Adjective

unmade (comparative more unmade, superlative most unmade)

1. 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.

Verb

unmade

1. simple past and past participle of unmake

References

• “unmade”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.