Meanings
adjectiveunshorn (not comparable)
- not comparableNot shorn.
Get up, get up for shame, the blooming morne / Upon her wings presents the god unshorne. / See how Aurora throwes her faire / Fresh-quilted colours through the aire; / Get up, sweet slug-a-bed, and see / The dew bespangling herbe and tree.
1648, Robert Herrick, “Corinna’s Going a Maying”, in Hesperides, or The VVorks both Humane & Divine, London: Printed for John Williams, and Francis Eglesfield, […], →OCLC; republished in The Poetical Works of Robert Herrick, London: William Pickering, […], 1825, →OCLC, pages 91–92Synonyms: unsheared
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveNot shorn.
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adjectivenot sheared
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Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
- Proto-Germanic*un-
- Proto-West Germanic*un-
- Old Englishun-
- Middle Englishun-
- Englishun-
- Englishshorn
- Englishunshorn
Translations
Bulgarian нестриган
- нестриган (nestrigan)not shorn
German ungeschoren
- ungeschorennot shorn
Greek ακούρευτος
- ακούρευτος (akoúreftos)not shorn
Hindi अविभाजित
- अविभाजित (avibhājit)not shorn
Hungarian nyíratlan
- nyíratlannot shorn
Italian non tosato
- non tosatonot shorn
Latin intonsus
- intonsusnot shorn
Russian неподстриженный, нестриженный
- неподстриженный (nepodstrižennyj)not shorn
- нестриженный (nestrižennyj)not shorn
Spanish intonso, no esquilado
- intonsonot shorn
- no esquiladonot shorn
- no cortadonot shorn
Cite this entry
APA
unshorn. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unshorn
MLA
“unshorn.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unshorn. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unshorn,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unshorn.
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