Meanings
comparative more unmixed · superlative most unmixed
- Pure, not mixed or combined.
When necessary two six-car sets are coupled together throughout from Ore, but at Hastings this arrangement is not an unmixed blessing as the rear lead from one platform line to the other is fouled when a 12-coach train is standing at the platform.
1940 July, R. A. H. Weight, “Hastings—An Interesting Traffic Centre”, in Railway Magazine, page 388 - commutative algebraSuch that its height is equal to the height of every associated prime of the quotient R/I as a module over R.
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivenot constituting a compound
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-
- Englishmixed
- Englishunmixed
Translations
Ancient Greek ἄκρατος, χαλίκρητος
- ἄκρατος (ákratos)not mixed or combined
- χαλίκρητος (khalíkrētos)not mixed or combined
Latin merus
- merusnot mixed or combined
Cite this entry
unmixed. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unmixed
“unmixed.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unmixed. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unmixed,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unmixed.
Source: unmixed on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.