unframed

Examples

• All

• The unframed canvases hung in horizontal rows in a semicircle around the room like double rows of uneven teeth in a shark's mouth.

  Fiction book (1998)

• Posters are also normally not matted and often unframed, so a bold border serves more than one purpose.

  Academic text (2007)

• Ciechonowe is missing from the data, yet exists, large and unframed on the wall.

  Fiction book (1996)

• Among other interesting features, different volumes alternate between framed and unframed pictures; this may even vary within one book.

  Academic text (2018)

• The room is filled with unframed canvases, many of them copies of paintings by the Old Masters.

  Fiction book (1998)

• Newman left the last three works, which are increasingly long and narrow, unframed, exposing the deep painted sides.

  Academic text (2014)

• Later, her mother stacked her unframed canvases in the basement, covering them with a sheet.

  Fiction book (1996)

• Clay glances at the unframed canvases on the wall and stacked in the corners.

  Fiction book (1998)

• Pinned onto the walls were large travel posters of Laos, unframed, their edges curled and fraying, so old that the colors were faded and the captions were written in French.

  Fiction book (2002)

• The gallery featured many beautiful unframed artworks displayed directly on the walls.

Synonyms

F

frameless

vsunframed

1 4.4

Without a border around it

is about not being enclosed by an outer structure

U

unenclosed

vsunframed

1 5.5

An open space that has no fence or wall around it

focuses on not being surrounded rather than specifically missing an outer frame

U

unbordered

vsunframed

7.1

An area or object with no clear edge that seems to join what is around it

means not enclosed by an outer structure rather than lacking just an edge

Antonyms

E

enclosed

1 3.5

Something that is inside and surrounded by other things, like a garden or document

F

framed

2.8

Placed inside a border for support or decoration

How Framed

encased

4.1

framed

2.8

mounted

1 4.2

unframed

1 4.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology