unwatered

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adjective

Lacking water: not having been provided with drinking water, etc.

“an unwatered plain”

OriginEnglish watered ← Middle English un- ← Old English un- →
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Meanings

adjectiveunwatered (not comparable)
  1. Not watered.
    1. not comparableLacking water: not having been provided with drinking water, etc.

      One of your highest duties as a farmhand is to make sure that no livestock goes unwatered, even when things go wrong with the equipment.

      1 more example

      Three years later, the unwatered cactus was still about two feet tall, a dark green color. The watered cactus was a paler green, its trunk visibly swollen with moisture. It had grown to be over five feet tall.

      2013, Leslie Morgan Steiner, The Baby Chase
    2. not comparableNot having any surface water: no bodies of water and little to no rain.

      an unwatered plain

      1 more example

      an unwatered valley

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. Englishwatered
  9. Englishunwatered

From un- + watered.

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Translations

Arabic بَعْلِيّ
  • بَعْلِيّ (baʕliyy)not watered
Greek ανέρωτος
  • ανέρωτος (anérotos)not watered
Polish niepodlany
  • niepodlanynot watered
Cite this entry
APA

unwatered. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unwatered

MLA

“unwatered.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unwatered. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unwatered,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unwatered.

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