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unconsumed

unconsumed

1 4.5
Something left because no one ate or used it
  • adjective
  • /ˌʌnkənˈsjuːmd/
translation icon : no consumido
  • After the party, there were several unconsumed pizzas that we decided to take home.

Examples

  • Composting (arrow 6a in figure 1) returns unconsumed food waste to the soil, though not always to soils where food is grown.

    Academic text (2011)
  • On day four, the rats were given eight grams of lab chow at 8:00 a.m.; any unconsumed lab chow was removed at 2:30 p.m.

    Academic text (1994)
  • Burning unconsumed paper products still pollutes the air.

    Academic text (1992)
  • Is he trying to represent nominal changes in value of the unconsumed portion of the asset in question and treating the capital gain as income?

    Blog text (27)
  • The lab chow was available to the rats until 4:00 p.m., at which time any unconsumed chow was removed.

    Academic text (1994)
  • Reynolds' weekly wage, enveloped beneath the kitchen porch mat, went unconsumed.

    Fiction book (1993)
  • They say it costs half a trillion dollars, and maybe it would be too tedious to get into how much of that is the sunk cost of the physical equipment (which appears to basically be left undamaged and unconsumed in the course of using it), and how much of that is the marginal cost required to send one person through.

    Blog text (15)
  • At 3:15 p.m., any unconsumed potatoes were removed and rats received an intraperitoneal injection of either 0.12M LiCl or physiological saline depending on which condition they were in.

    Academic text (1994)
  • At the end of the meal, the waiter took away any unconsumed dishes from the table.

  • The teacher reminded students to not leave any unconsumed snacks behind at the end of the class.

Synonyms

untouched
vsunconsumed
8 2.1

Not eaten or drunk and still left as it was

is broader, applying to any leftover item, not only those still sealed
unused
vsunconsumed
6 1.0

A thing that is still new and never touched

also covers items left over after partial use or not fully spent
uneaten
vsunconsumed
5 1.0

Food that no one has eaten yet

is more general, applying to any item left alone and still available
unspent
vsunconsumed
2 4.1

Money or resources that have not yet been used

is similar but applies to any kind of leftover item, not only funds
unutilized
vsunconsumed
  • US
1 5.6

Not used and left empty

is the everyday term that also includes items simply left available
unexhausted
vsunconsumed
6.5

Still available because it is not used up

focuses more on items simply remaining, not on partial depletion
unexpended
vsunconsumed
7.1

Money or resources that are not yet spent

is more general, covering any item left over rather than only resources

Antonyms

1.0

Owned by someone else before

How Used

leftover
1 1.6
unconsumed
1 4.5
untouched
8 2.1
intact
304 3.7

Surface Forms

unconsumed positive

Morphology

unconsumed = consumed (transparent) = un + consume + ed

The adjective is a straightforward negation formed by adding 'un-' to the past participle 'consumed', so its meaning is directly recoverable from the base.

Etymology

The word unconsumed starts with un- meaning 'not' and the rest comes from consume, which means 'to use up' or 'eat'. So unconsumed means 'not used up' or 'not eaten', something that is still left.