unpointed
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Adjective edit
unpointed (not comparable)
- Not pointed (formed into a point).
- 2007 October 4, Roslyn Sulcas, “For $10, a Smorgasbord of the Popular and Daring”, in New York Times[1]:
- Ms. Marin uses a deliberately slack, unballetic form; limbs are relaxed rather than stretched and feet are unpointed.
- Not pointed (finished by filling with cement or mortar).
- 2007, Russell Versaci, Creating a New Old House: Yesterday's Character for Today's Home:
- The masons laid the brick walls unevenly, leaving unpointed mortar between bricks for a rough-cast texture.
- (typography) Not marked with a point.
- an unpointed vowel
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
unpointed
- simple past and past participle of unpoint