uncompounded

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adjective

Not compounded.

Similar
unmixeduncombined
OriginEnglish compounded ← Middle English un- ← Old English un- →
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Meanings

adjectiveuncompounded (not comparable)
  1. not comparableNot compounded.

    The short uncompounded names were naturally even less comprehensible than the compounded ones; […]

    1945, E[lizabeth] G[idley] Withycombe, “Introduction”, in The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page xii

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectivenot constituting a compound

Similar
unmixeduncombined
Also see
uncombinedunmixed

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*né
  2. Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
  3. Proto-Germanic*un-
  4. Proto-West Germanic*un-
  5. Old Englishun-
  6. Middle Englishun-
  7. Englishun-
  8. Englishcompounded
  9. Englishuncompounded

From un- + compounded.

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Cite this entry
APA

uncompounded. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/uncompounded

MLA

“uncompounded.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/uncompounded. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “uncompounded,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/uncompounded.

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