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🍗 Not cooked in oil 🙂 Not exhausted 💻 Not damaged
unfried

unfried

1 3.9
Cooked without oil or fat
  • adjective
  • /ʌnˈfraɪd/
translation icon : no frito
  • For a healthier meal, she prepared unfried vegetables that were roasted in the oven.
  • unfried chicken

Examples

  • Because we're tasting the thing unfried and then we're tasting the thing fried.

  • It's my pineapple shrimp, unfried rice because it's so good.

  • The menu ranges from grass-fed beef burgers to "unfried chicken" to vegan and gluten-free options.

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  • The restaurant offers a delicious option of unfried tofu that is grilled instead of cooked in oil.

  • He enjoys making unfried rice using fresh ingredients rather than frying them in oil.

Antonyms

fried
1.0

Food cooked in hot oil or fat

Surface Forms

unfried positive

Morphology

unfried = fried (transparent) = un + fried

Meaning is directly the negative formed by productive English prefix 'un-' attached to the adjective 'fried' (not cooked by frying).

Etymology

Unfried comes from the small parts un- meaning 'not' and fry meaning 'to cook in oil', so fried means 'cooked in oil'. So unfried simply means 'not cooked by frying', which helps you remember it as food made without oil.