Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

unworked

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.42 in modern English

Syllables: un-worked
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Yet to be altered, carved, milled, worked, or otherwise changed from its natural or crude state.

adj

Describing an unaltered material found associated with human tool-making or other cultural activity.

Example Sentences

"For years there stood in the sculptor's studio a two-ton block of unworked Italian marble."
"Dozens of unworked obsidian cobbles were found buried with the deceased."

Etymology

From Middle English unwerked, unwerched, equivalent to un- + worked. Doublet of unwrought.

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: unwerked

Inflected Forms

more unworked (comparative) most unworked (superlative)

Derived Forms

unworkedness

Frequently Paired Words

nonworking unworkable underworked underwrought

Synonyms

unwrought

Antonyms

overworked overwrought

Questions

What does unworked mean?: Yet to be altered, carved, milled, worked, or otherwise changed from its natural or crude state.
Where does unworked come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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