unfed
English
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English un-fedd, unfedd, equivalent to un- + fed.[1]
Adjective
editunfed (not comparable)
- Not fed.
- 2014 December 29, Jane Gross, “The Future, Revisited”, in The New York Times[1]:
- Unmentioned in the existing document, Henry would be left alone after I died: unfed, unwalked, unloved.
- 2020 February 19, Thomas Fuller, “California Governor Declares Homeless Crisis ‘a Disgrace’”, in The New York Times[2]:
- “Every day, the California dream is dimmed by the wrenching reality of families and children and seniors living unfed on a concrete bed.”
- (figurative) Unsupported. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
Coordinate terms
editTranslations
editnot fed
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Noun
editunfed (plural unfeds)
- (biology) A mosquito that has not had a blood meal.
- The captured mosquitos were divided into feds and unfeds.
References
edit- ^ “unfed, adj.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
Anagrams
editWelsh
editEtymology
editPronunciation
edit- (North Wales) IPA(key): /ˈɨ̞nvɛd/
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /ˈɪnvɛd/
Adjective
editunfed (feminine singular unfed, plural unfed, not comparable)
Usage notes
edit- The word unfed (“first”) is used in compound numbers, whereas cyntaf is used elsewhere, for instance, y llawr cyntaf (“the first floor”), yr unfed llawr ar hugain (“the twenty-first floor”).
Derived terms
edit- unfed ar ddeg (“eleventh”)
- unfed ar bymtheg (“sixteenth”)
- unfed ar hugain (“twenty-first”)
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