unbuttoned

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/ʌnˈbʌtənd/

adjective

Having the buttons undone.

“I unbuttoned my shirt to take it off.”

Similar
unfastenedopen-collaredunlacedunrestrained
Opposite
buttoned-upbuttoned
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Meanings

unbuttoned1

verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of unbutton

    I unbuttoned my shirt to take it off.

unbuttoned2

adjectiveunbuttoned (comparative more unbuttoned, superlative most unbuttoned)

comparative more unbuttoned · superlative most unbuttoned

  1. Having the buttons undone.

    Once a white man in an unbuttoned uniform, camping on the path with an armed escort of lank Zanzibaris, very hospitable and festive, not to say drunk.

    1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 209
  2. In disarray.
  3. Informal, casual.

Synonyms & antonyms

Opposite
buttoned-up

adjectivenot buttoned

Similar
unfastenedopen-collared
Opposite
buttoned

adjectivenot under constraint in action or expression

Similar
unlacedunrestrained
Also see
fucked upmessed upscrewed upunfastenedunlaced

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

From un- + buttoned. In some instances possibly from unbutton.

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Cite this entry
APA

unbuttoned. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unbuttoned

MLA

“unbuttoned.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unbuttoned. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unbuttoned,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unbuttoned.

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