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ungraded

ungraded

1 5.3
Not given a grade or put into levels
  • adjective
  • /ʌnˈɡreɪdɪd/
translation icon : sin calificar
  • Mr. Smith, a new teacher in your school, was assigned to an ungraded upper elementary class.
  • an ungraded class

Examples

  • Such examples of ungraded writing assignments should not deter meaningful evaluation; instead, they should constantly remind the teacher that writing is a process of discovery.

    Academic text (1991)
  • The evaluations of these observations progress from ungraded comments to more formal rating scales.

    Academic text (1998)
  • There are weeks when Mrs. Jensen simply files the ungraded assessments into her cabinet until progress reports are due.

    Academic text (2012)
  • The "graded" and "ungraded" boxes were empty, but the other two held neat stacks of papers.

    Fiction book (1993)
  • I do provide enrichment activities, but these are optional, ungraded, and usually take the form of contests such as essays that can win scholarship money or science projects for Week of the Ocean.

    Blog text (15)
  • In addition, the instructor leads the class in completing ungraded exercises (ACL Resource 2) that provide additional practice with ACL.

    Academic text (2004)
  • He dominated an overmatched field in an ungraded event last time out at Belmont, and perhaps that was a race he needed to get back into the winning groove.

    Blog text (7)
  • I have no clue what to make of 7-My Wandy's Girl (3/1); she dominated her competition in Puerto Rico and then came to New York and won an ungraded event just a couple of weeks ago.

    Blog text (7)
  • She scanned the faces as if she were looking at an ungraded class and was resigned to letting their limping tongues take the time and a half they would need to spell out their simplistic thoughts with the ramshackle machinery of their minds.

    Fiction book (1995)
  • In Mr. Thompson's school, students are placed in an ungraded class to encourage collaborative learning.

Synonyms

undifferentiated
vsungraded
3 7.5

Not clearly divided into different parts or types

is about lacking ordered level classification rather than simple sameness
unranked
vsungraded
2 4.8

Not given a position in a list that shows who is best

is about not being arranged or classified into levels or hierarchy
unclassified
vsungraded
1 4.6

Not put into any group or category

is about not being organized into ordered levels or hierarchy
nonhierarchical
vsungraded
7.7

Organized so no person or group is above another

is about absence of arrangement into levels based on a scale
nonhierarchic
vsungraded
8.0

Organized without different levels of authority

is about lacking arrangement into ordered levels across a scale
uncategorized
vsungraded
  • US
7.2

Not put into any group or folder

is about absence of level-based sorting rather than missing grouping
noncategorical
vsungraded
8.4

Covering many different kinds and not fitting one group

is about not being placed into ordered levels by a scale
undifferenced
vsungraded
8.7

Not marked with any sign that tells items apart

is about absence of level order rather than just lacking visible marks
non-rated
vsungraded
  • Formal
4.8

Not given an official age or content label by a review board

is about not being organized into levels by a scale or system
unscaled
vsungraded
6.0

Not measured, changed, or covered with scales, for example raw data and fish

is about absence of level ordering rather than lack of measurement
gradeless
vsungraded
6.8

A surface that shows no gradual change in color or light and looks flat

is about not being arranged into levels or ordered classes instead

Antonyms

1 4.4

Organized into groups by type or level

3.2

People put things into levels by how good they are

How Graded

graded
3.2
ranked
3.3
ungraded
1 5.3
gradeless
6.2

Surface Forms

ungraded positive

Morphology

ungraded = graded (transparent) = un + grade + ed

Clearly formed from 'graded' with the negative prefix 'un-', meaning 'not graded' in the sense of classified or assigned levels.

Etymology

Ungraded is made of un- 'not' and grade 'step' or 'level', the same root you see in graduate. So ungraded means 'not put into levels', which is why it describes work or groups that have no score or level.