unfed

English

Etymology

From Middle English un-fedd, unfedd, equivalent to un- +‎ fed.

Adjective

unfed (not comparable)

1. 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.”

2. (figurative) Unsupported. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Coordinate terms

• overfed
• underfed
• unwatered

Translations

not fed

• Bulgarian: ненахранен (nenahranen)
• Georgian: მშიერი (mšieri)
• Greek: νηστικός (el) (nistikós), αθήλαστος (el) (athílastos)
• Manx: neuveaghit
• Turkish: aç (tr)

Noun

unfed (plural unfeds)

1. (biology) A mosquito that has not had a blood meal.

   The captured mosquitos were divided into feds and unfeds.

Anagrams

• undef

Welsh

Etymology

un (“one”) +‎ -fed (“-th”)

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈɨ̞nvɛd/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈɪnvɛd/

Adjective

unfed (feminine singular unfed, plural unfed, not comparable)

1. first (forms ordinals of compound numbers where the first element is un (“one”))

Usage notes

• 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

• unfed ar ddeg (“eleventh”)
• unfed ar bymtheg (“sixteenth”)
• unfed ar hugain (“twenty-first”)