undivided
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4.7
- adjective
- /ˌʌndɪˈvaɪdɪd/
- Specialized
:
indiviso
- Now we sit in our walled-off ideological rooms, losing our sense as Americans, one nation, undivided.
- undivided interest
- undivided whole
- undivided wholeness
Integrity just means one thing whole and unbroken, so it's undivided and you'll find peace.
- Integrity just means one thing whole and unbroken, so it's undivided and you'll find peace.
- David Bohm, the physicist, he called it all undivided wholeness in flowing motion.
- He refuses that and says I have come from what is undivided.
- So it says each undivided from the whole always does everything, and what appears as done by the whole is the direct and conscious deed of each.
Examples
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The family estate remains undivided in the parents' home because there are still unmarried siblings who need financial support from the family.
Academic text (1997) -
With all respect, sir, you have no right to order me to shoot down my own men... unless you are willing to take full and undivided responsibility for it.
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Surely it is more parsimonious to assume that reality is a single, undivided whole until proven fragmented, rather than the other way around.
Academic text (1993) -
Although family members hold an undivided interest in heirs' land, a single heir who wishes to sell can request their interest be divided from the collective.
Academic text (2011) -
The committee reached an undivided decision to approve the new policy.
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The family shared an undivided interest in preserving their ancestral home.
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Everyone in the group committed to an undivided effort to meet the project's deadline.
Synonyms
976
1.0
Applying to only one group or system
46
3.4
Cannot be divided and kept apart, like joined parts or very close friends
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5.8
Cannot be split into parts
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7.0
Making different parts act together as one
Whole and not able to be divided
Things not separated into clear parts that form one solid mass
Not divided into parts or sections
A thing that has no separate parts
Remaining as a single part without branches
Not split into two parts, like a horse's hoof
Not divided into parts and kept together as one unit
Antonyms
Compounds
- Formal
An equal claim that lets each owner use the whole property rather than a separate part
How Whole
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word undivided is built from un- 'not' and divide 'to split', so it means 'not split into parts'. Like a pie that is never cut, an undivided property or interest is kept as one whole share rather than divided among people.