unexercised
/ənˈɛksɚsˌaɪzd/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.22 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Not having been subjected to physical exercise.
verb
simple past and past participle of unexercise
Example Sentences
- "Says Colonel Thomas Murray, chief Army psychiatrist in South Viet Nam: “Some of our psychiatrists are the most improbable military guys: soft, flabby, unexercised.”"
- "[…] Lou was a respectful reader of the boy books that were emerging then, those magazines of black-and-white photos of teenagers with shaved chests, sucked-in if unexercised stomachs, and cloth posing-straps who stood on a dais silhouetted against a sunburst of seamless paper."
- "Unexercised joints get stiffer, but the wrong sort of exercise can strain the joints, damaging them further."
- "Shelby W. Bonnie, the former chief executive, agreed to reprice 700,000 unexercised shares, the company said yesterday in a statement."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English exercised English unexercised From un- + exercised.