Meanings
adjectiveuncarpentered (not comparable)
- not comparableNot carpentered.
It was […] not unusual for these shelves, which had to be improvised at short order, to be uncarpentered constructs variously and ingeniously propped, tied, glued and hanging off stone walls whose last dignity was to refuse to be screwed.
2019, Niall Williams, This is Happiness, Bloomsbury (2020), page 319
Origin
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APA
uncarpentered. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/uncarpentered
MLA
“uncarpentered.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/uncarpentered. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “uncarpentered,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/uncarpentered.
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