unmeasured

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adjective

Not having been measured.

“the unmeasured expanse of the ocean”

UncommonScrabble 13

Meanings

adjectiveunmeasured (comparative more unmeasured, superlative most unmeasured)

comparative more unmeasured · superlative most unmeasured

  1. 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
  2. Beyond measure; vast; measureless.

    the unmeasured expanse of the ocean

    1 more example

    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
  3. 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

  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. Englishmeasured
  9. Englishunmeasured

From un- + measured.

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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
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APA

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MLA

“unmeasured.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unmeasured. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unmeasured,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unmeasured.

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