ungloved

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adjective

Not wearing a glove; barehanded.

“Hold the bottle with the gloved hand and unscrew the top with the ungloved hand.”

Scrabble 13

Meanings

adjectiveungloved (not comparable)
  1. not comparableNot wearing a glove; barehanded.

    Hold the bottle with the gloved hand and unscrew the top with the ungloved hand.

    3 more examples

    Our clothing was insufficient to protect us from the severe cold: we had no boots, the snow got into our shoes and melted there; our ungloved hands became numbed and covered with chilblains, as were our feet[…]

    1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter VII, in Jane Eyre. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 105

    Mrs. Hauksbee laid her hand lightly upon the ungloved paw that rested on the turned-backed ’rickshaw hood, and, looking the man full in the face, said tenderly, almost too tenderly, “I believe in you if you mistrust yourself.”

    1889, Rudyard Kipling, “The Education of Otis Yeere”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 35

    Keep your dignity here even though other folk are expending any amount of piranhic energy implanting their ungloved lunch hooks into the property left by another.

    1975, James Patrick Donleavy, The unexpurgated code: a complete manual of survival and manners

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. Englishgloved
  9. Englishungloved

From un- + gloved.

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APA

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

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Chicago

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

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