unwhelmed

English

Etymology 1

From un- +‎ whelmed.

Adjective

unwhelmed (comparative more unwhelmed, superlative most unwhelmed)

1. Not engulfed or submerged; (figuratively) not overcome with emotion.
   • 1872, William Watkiss Lloyd, The History of Sicily to the Athenian War; with Elucidations of the Sicilian Odes of Pindar, London: John Murray, Book 2, Chapter 6 “To Hiero of Syracuse (Second Pythian Ode),” p. 291,^[1]

     For I, like the cork above a net, whilst the other tackle plies the sea-toil deep below, am still unwhelmed by the brine.

   • 1915, Ludwig Lewisohn (translator), Charlemagne’s Hostage, Act II, in The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann, New York: B.W. Huebsch, Volume 5, p. 300,^[2]

     […] The old man with the look of one

     Drowning, who gave thy freedom unto thee—

     ’Tis he still breathing, still unwhelmed, who crosses

     Thy path once more to-day.

   • 1915, J. Redfearn Williamson, “Bernard Gilbert, Dialect Poet”, in The Manchester Quarterly‎^[3], volume 34, page 71:

     Under the most favourable conditions dialects are destined to dwindle and decay, and we ought to be grateful to the writers who preserve for us a little longer old-time habits, customs and idiosyncracies in the folk speech of small communities as yet unwhelmed by the onrush of modern life.

Etymology 2

Verb

unwhelmed

1. simple past and past participle of unwhelm