ungathered
- adjective
- /ʌnˈɡæðərd/
- The leaves lay ungathered on the forest floor, creating a colorful carpet.
Examples
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After the storm, there were ungathered branches scattered across the yard.
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You would let such a flower go ungathered?
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Just by being here without express authorization, there wasn't much sense in trampling ungathered evidence.
Fiction book (1996) -
The extent to which ungathered Saints had as literal an understanding of themselves as chosen as did the Saints in Kirtland and Independence is difficult to determine.
Academic text (2007) -
The artist preferred to leave some ungathered materials as part of the natural landscape.
Synonyms
Not gathered or picked up and left where it is
Not joined together and staying separate
Not joined to something it was attached to before
Not joined together and still separate
Not joined to other things
Not joined together into one thing
A person or group that is not part of the main community
A person who is not married and lives alone
Antonyms
How Gathered
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Ungathered uses the prefix un- meaning 'not' and the verb gather meaning 'to bring things together'. So, ungathered describes things left apart or 'not collected in one place'.