unconstructed
- adjective
- /ˌʌn.kənˈstrʌk.tɪd/
- What I call "unconstructed."
Examples
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The artist favored an unconstructed style that emphasized spontaneity and natural forms.
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Matter must lose its status as an a priori and unconstructed surface onto which gender is applied, in lieu of an examination of the ways in which the materiality and materialization of sex itself operate.
Academic text (2012) -
The children built an unconstructed fort made of branches and leaves, allowing their imagination to guide them.
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After the storm, the landscape appeared unconstructed, with fallen trees and debris scattered everywhere.
Synonyms
Not fully developed or given a clear shape
Not organized in a clear plan or order
Ideas or skills not fully formed and needing more work
Not put together and sent in separate parts like furniture
Not made into a finished object
A thing that has no clear form yet
Land with no houses on it, kept in a natural state
In a natural state, not made or changed by people
Not fully formed or decided
Not formed into a clear idea or plan
Not thought of before
Antonyms
How Built
Surface Forms
Morphology
unconstructed = constructed (transparent) = un + construct + ed
The adjective is formed by straightforward prefixation of 'un-' to 'constructed', yielding the literal negation 'not built or formed'.
Etymology
The word unconstructed is made of un- ('not') and construct ('to build'), the same root you see in construction, so it literally means 'not built' or not put together.