Meanings
comparative more unmade · superlative most unmade
- That is not yet made.
On the most unmade bed imaginable sat two older Jewish men, both with black coats folded across their knees, bent close to each other […].
1965, Frederic Morton, The Schatten Affair, page 180 - Having had its making undone.
- UKWithout a hard, smooth, permanent surface.
[E]ven when it turned off the unmade road and went steeply upwards along an even more unmade track, I was still exhilarated […].
1980, Blackwood's Magazine, page 5051 more example
It was an unexpected benefit to early rail investors that passengers had an appetite for travel, which up to then had been a tortuous experience on largely unmade roads and involving stays at coaching inns that provided variable amenities.
2021 September 22, Industry Insider, “A new way of thinking”, in RAIL, number 940, page 92
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of unmake
Synonyms & antonyms
adjective(of a bed) not having the sheets and blankets set in order
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
- Proto-Germanic*un-
- Proto-West Germanic*un-
- Old Englishun-
- Middle Englishun-
- Englishun-
- Englishmade
- Englishunmade
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with unmade
Cite this entry
unmade. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unmade
“unmade.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unmade. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unmade,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unmade.
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