untanned

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adjective

Not tanned

Opposite
tanned
OriginEnglish tanned ← Middle English un- ← Old English un- →
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Meanings

adjectiveuntanned (comparative more untanned, superlative most untanned)

comparative more untanned · superlative most untanned

  1. Not tanned

    by nature, his manner was not unrefined, his frame slender, and appeared the more so from the broad, untanned frontlet of his brow, tangled over with a disheveled mass of raven curls, throwing a still deeper tinge upon a complexion like that of a shriveled berry.

    1857, Herman Melville, chapter XXXVI, in The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectivenot converted to leather by a tanning agent

Opposite
tanned
Also see
unbronzed

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. Englishtanned
  9. Englishuntanned

From un- + tanned.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with untanned

andhandlandbrandbandunderstandgrandstanddemandexpandplannedsandgranderandstrandbannedscannedcannedglandtannedwithstandblandsecondhandmanned
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Cite this entry
APA

untanned. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/untanned

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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