Meanings
adjectiveuncompromised (not comparable)
- not comparableNot compromised.
Thus is a subtle, often anguished, at times tentative but uncompromised analytic confrontation with the meaning of intercourse to men transformed into a monotonic polemical admonishment to women, and an act of literary genius reduced to a Monarch outline.
1987 June 14, “Dworkin's Arguments”, in The New York Times
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
- Proto-Germanic*un-
- Proto-West Germanic*un-
- Old Englishun-
- Middle Englishun-
- Englishun-
- Englishcompromise
- Englishcompromised
- Englishuncompromised
From un- + compromised.
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APA
uncompromised. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/uncompromised
MLA
“uncompromised.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/uncompromised. Accessed November 2, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “uncompromised,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/uncompromised.
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