Meanings
unstirred1
comparative more unstirred · superlative most unstirred
- That has not been mixed by stirring.
- Not stirred or emotionally excited.
Who, in after years, could supply a mother's place to the bereaved child, in whom affection's sweetest fountain must remain for ever unstirred?
1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VIII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 741 more example
Inadventurous, unstirred by impulses of practical ambition, I was capable of sitting twenty years teaching infants the hornbook, turning silk dresses and making children's frocks.
1853, Charlotte Brontë, Villette
unstirred2
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of unstir
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivenot agitated by stirring
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-
- Englishstirred
- Englishunstirred
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unstirred. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unstirred
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