Meanings
comparative more unmeasured · superlative most unmeasured
- Not having been measured.
Recall the gradual dark the snow’s unmeasured fall The naked fields the cloud’s immaculate folds
1941, Theodore Roethke, “To My Sister”, in Open House, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, →OCLC; republished in The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke, London: Faber and Faber […], 1968, →OCLC, page 5 - Beyond measure; vast; measureless.
the unmeasured expanse of the ocean
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She [Diana] hath ſent (to plague vs) a huge ſauadge Boare, Of an vn-meaſured height and magnitude. […] His briſtles poynted like a range of pikes Ranck't on his backe: his foame ſnowes where he feeds His tuskes are like the Indian Oliphants.
1613, Thomas Heywood, The Brazen Age, […], London: […] Nicholas Okes, […], →OCLC, Act II, signature [C4], verso - Unrestrained; without moderation or deliberation.
the hasty, unmeasured speech of the defendant
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivenot composed of measured syllables; not metrical
adjectivewithout limits in extent or size or quantity
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-
- Englishmeasured
- Englishunmeasured
Translations
Greek άμετρος
- άμετρος (ámetros)not measured
Hindi अमित, असीम
- अमित (amit)not measured
- असीम (asīm)not measured
- अपरिमित (aprimit)not measured
Norwegian umålt
- umåltnot measured
Swedish omätt
- omättnot measured
Cite this entry
unmeasured. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unmeasured
“unmeasured.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unmeasured. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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