Meanings
uncapped1
- not comparableNot capped (in various senses); not wearing or possessing a cap.
From rolling plain where crumbling Tiber flows, / To fixed Soracte still uncapped with snow.
1876, Alfred Austin, The Human Tragedy, page 2551 more example
I struggling faintly, could not help feeling what I could not grasp, a column of the whitest ivory, beautifully streak'd with blue veins, and carrying, fully uncapt, a head of the liveliest vermillion
Fanny Hill
1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC - not comparablehobbiesNot having made an appearance in an international sports match.
there seems nothing very unusual about an uncapped 20-year-old English midfielder being asked to step up in the Champions League last-16 against Real Madrid.
2020 August 7, Jonathan Liew, “Phil Foden stars to offer Manchester City glimpse of multiple futures”, in The Guardian1 more example
The jury is still out on their purchase of French defender Wesley Fofana, who cost £75m from Leicester in 2022 and has struggled with injury. He made his France debut in 2023 but remains, we think, the most expensive player to move clubs while uncapped.
2024 July 24, Guardian sport, “Who are football’s most expensive uncapped players?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
uncapped2
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of uncap
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveused especially of front teeth
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
uncapped · adjective
From un- + capped. Piecewise doublet of uncaped and uncoped.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
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