ungloved
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4.4
- adjective
- /ʌnˈɡlʌvd/
- Her ungloved hand grasping the tongs was freezing.
- ungloved hands
Examples
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My ungloved fingers are numb.
Fiction book (1996) -
His ungloved hands lay in his lap; the right one—deformed in some way I couldn't quite see—was underneath the left.
Fiction book (1997) -
Their linked hands were ungloved.
Fiction book (1999) -
The old man turned in his saddle and pointed his ungloved hand ahead.
Fiction book (1998) -
He laid an ungloved hand on my arm.
Fiction book (1997) -
As I felt their infant's wet head on my ungloved hands, the father of the baby called out, "I am going to faint!"
Academic text (2010) -
At the non-third ring, as she said hello to the caller, he pushed back his eyeglasses with his ungloved hand.
Fiction book (1994) -
He was careless in his haste; a single gorgeous drop fell and landed on his ungloved index finger.
Fiction book (1998) -
She pulled them out slowly through melted beeswax and hung them in a tree to let them dry, taking care all the while not to touch them with ungloved hands.
Fiction book (1998) -
Laney looked down at her ungloved hands, feeling the cool air on her skin.
Synonyms
1
4.0
Having no gloves on the hands
Antonyms
How Gloved
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Ungloved is made from un- meaning 'not' and glove, which means a 'hand covering'. So ungloved simply describes hands that are not wearing gloves, or that are bare.