unhealed

U1N1H4E1A1L1E1D2

adjective

Not healed.

“an unhealed wound”

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OriginEnglish healed ← Middle English un- ← Old English un- →
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Meanings

unhealed1

adjectiveunhealed (comparative more unhealed, superlative most unhealed)

comparative more unhealed · superlative most unhealed

  1. Not healed.

    an unhealed wound

    1 more example

    Additionally, considering the limited toughness measured after healing and the absence of compliance recovery, this case will be considered further in this study as the unhealed scenario.

    2022 May 9, Eleni Tsangouri et al., “Reservoir-Vascular Tubes Network for Self-Healing Concrete: Performance Analysis by Acoustic Emission, Digital Image Correlation and Ultrasound Velocity”, in Applied Sciences, volume 12, number 10, →DOI, archived from the original on 18 Apr 2025

unhealed2

verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of unheal

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectivenot healed

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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. Englishhealed
  9. Englishunhealed

From un- + healed.

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Translations

Ukrainian незаго́єний
  • незаго́єний (nezahójenyj)not healed

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

Hundalee
Cite this entry
APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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