💭 Not expressed 🤐 Not clearly spoken 🦴 Not jointed

unarticulated

7.9

A body part that has no joints or separate parts

adjective
/ˌʌnɑːrˈtɪkjʊleɪtɪd/

Specialized

: no articulado

The architect preferred using unarticulated materials in his designs to create a more fluid and organic look.

Examples

The sculpture's form appeared as a large, unarticulated mass, lacking any distinct features or segments.
In place of Michelangelo's dense and sophisticated design is little more than a marble box, which serves as a plinth for the three statues and the unarticulated void of the recess above.

Academic text (1992)
Many ancient structures were built with unarticulated walls, giving them a raw and unfinished appearance.

Synonyms

unsegmented

vsunarticulated

Specialized

1 7.8

A body or object that has no separate, repeating parts along its length

focuses on lack of separate sections rather than on connection points

unjointed

vsunarticulated

9.1

A stem or limb with no joints that moves in one piece

is a more formal term focused on absence of these joining points

jointless

vsunarticulated

4.7

Made as one piece with no separate parts

emphasizes being unbroken rather than naming missing connections

Antonyms

jointed

1 4.2

Made of parts that can move and bend where they meet

articulated

Specialized

6.2

Having parts with joints that let them move

How Articulated

articulated

Specialized

6.2

jointed

1 4.2

segmented

5.5

unarticulated

Specialized

7.9

continuous

141 3.7

Surface Forms

unarticulated positive

Morphology

unarticulated = articulated (transparent) = un + articulate + ed

The adjective is the negation of 'articulated' in the physical/jointed sense, so the meaning is directly derived.

Etymology

Unarticulated also draws on articulate from Latin articulare meaning 'joint' or 'to join', so in science it means something that is not made of separate parts or joints.