unmade


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un·made

 (ŭn-mād′)
adj.
Not made: an unmade bed.
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unmade

(ʌnˈmeɪd)
vb
the past tense and past participle of unmake
adj
1. not yet made
2. existing without having been made or created
3. (Falconry) falconry another word for unmanned4
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un•made

(ʌnˈmeɪd)

adj.
1. not made.
[1200–50]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.unmade - (of a bed) not having the sheets and blankets set in orderunmade - (of a bed) not having the sheets and blankets set in order; "an unmade bed with tangled sheets and blankets"
made - (of a bed) having the sheets and blankets set in order; "a neatly made bed"
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Translations

unmade

[ˈʌnˈmeɪd] ADJ [bed] → sin hacer (Brit) (= unsurfaced) [road] → sin pavimentar, sin asfaltar
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unmade

[ʌnˈmeɪd] adj [bed] → défait(e)
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unmade

adj bedungemacht
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unmade

[ʌnˈmeɪd] adj (bed) → disfatto/a
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References in classic literature ?
His eyes were naturally heavy; he had an air of having wallowed, fully dressed, all day on an unmade bed.
Since the year 1805 we had made peace and had again quarreled with Bonaparte and had made constitutions and unmade them again, but the salons of Anna Pavlovna Helene remained just as they had been- the one seven and the other five years before.
And I must leave all this"--he waved his arm round the dirty garret, with its unmade bed, the clothes lying on the floor, a row of empty beer bottles against the wall, piles of unbound, ragged books in every corner--"for some provincial university where I shall try and get a chair of philology.
And so, after having composed, struck out, rejected, added to, unmade, and remade a multitude of names out of his memory and fancy, he decided upon calling him Rocinante, a name, to his thinking, lofty, sonorous, and significant of his condition as a hack before he became what he now was, the first and foremost of all the hacks in the world.
Again, if the United States be not a government proper, but an association of States in the nature of contract merely, can it, as a contract, be peaceably unmade by less than all the parties who made it?
But although Raleigh had won for himself a name among soldiers, he was as yet unknown to the Queen; his fortune was still unmade.
It was a close and stifling little shop; full of all sorts of clothing, made and unmade, including one window full of beaver-hats and bonnets.
A light which was not of this world--a light shining prophetically from an unmade grave--dawned on my mind.
'This accusation of yours must not be left half made and half unmade. What was done for the blood-money must be thoroughly undone.'
It could also have bought 4,266 Unmade Beds by artist Tracy Emin - the Dome is about as much use.
The retired printer, 79, jokingly entered it for the Turner Prize after seeing the success of Damien Hirst's animals in formaldehyde and Tracey Emin's unmade bed.
And there wasn't an unmade bed in sight...not to mention dead sheep.