unassimilated
- adjective
- /ˌʌnəˈsɪməˌleɪtɪd/
- Specialized
- Many nutrients remained unassimilated after the meal, prompting the doctor to suggest dietary changes.
Examples
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Some of the medication remained unassimilated, leading to ineffective treatment.
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Unassimilated data detected.
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For Yve-Alain Bois, these negative spaces, most likely "reintegrated into the circuit of production," speak to a universal late capitalist condition in which systems of exchange allow nothing to go unassimilated.
Academic text (2005) -
The leftover food was unassimilated by her body, causing digestive issues.
Synonyms
Food left in the stomach because the body did not break it down, or an idea not fully thought about
Not able to be absorbed or used by living things
Not taken into something, for example liquid or light left on the surface
Not able to be taken in by the body or by materials
Not able to be soaked up by a material or by the body
Cannot be broken down by the body
Unable to become part of a group, culture, or system
Surface Forms
Morphology
unassimilated = assimilated (transparent) = un + assimilate + ed
The adjective is formed by negating the participle 'assimilated' with the productive prefix 'un-' to mean 'not assimilated'.
Etymology
Unassimilated comes from un- 'not' and assimilate 'make similar' or 'absorb', the same root as similar; think of food that does not become part of the body. So, in medicine it means something that is not absorbed into the body.