unwrought

English

Etymology

From Middle English unwrought, unwroght, unwrouȝt, equivalent to un- +‎ wrought. Doublet of unworked.

Adjective

unwrought (comparative more unwrought, superlative most unwrought)

1. In the native state, before being worked on; especially used of bars of bullion and other metal

Translations

in its native state, before being worked on

• Greek:

  Ancient: ᾱ̓ργός (ārgós)

• Irish: glas (ga)
• Manx: neuobbrit
• Russian: необрабо́танный (ru) (neobrabótannyj)

Verb

unwrought

1. simple past and past participle of unwork
   • c. 1845-46, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Sonnets from the Portuguese”, in If Thou Must Love Me‎^[1]:

     […] Do not say
     ‘I love her for her smile — her look — her way
     Of speaking gently, — for a trick of thought
     That falls in well with mine, and certes brought
     A sense of pleasant ease on such a day’ —
     For these things in themselves, Beloved, may
     Be changed, or change for thee, — and love so wrought,
     May be unwrought so. […]