Meanings
unroofed1
alternative rare unrooved
- not comparableNot roofed, not having a roof.
Every eye watched Baba Segi as he barged through the door of the unroofed pit latrine.
2010, Lola Shoneyin, chapter 9, in The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives, Harper Collins3 more examples
Stone pillars had been raised, a number of them; they stood unroofed, forming a hall of pillars with only the heavens as ceiling, and on the plain beyond the sun was just rising, flaming red, over the edge of the world.
1955, Thomas Mann, translated by Denver Lindley, Confessions of Felix Krull, Signet, published 1963, Book Three, Chapter VII, p. 254A separate building on the west side will house a standby powerhouse and a workshop, and there will be an unroofed compound for compressed air cylinders and water tanks.
1960 May 28, “New Signalbox at Manchester Victoria”, in Railway Magazine, page 310The final stages will be the demolition next year of the remaining part of the steam Jubilee Shed and the removal of the great, unroofed coaling plant nearby (said to be the oldest in the country); the turntable is also to disappear.
1960 December, “New G.E. Line diesel loco maintenance depot at Stratford”, in Trains Illustrated, page 767
unroofed2
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivehaving no roof
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Czech nezastřešený
- nezastřešenýnot roofed
Finnish katoton
- katotonnot roofed
Polish bez dachu
- bez dachunot roofed
Tagalog papas
- papasnot roofed
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unroofed. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unroofed
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