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📝 Not marked 🛤️ Not leveled
ungraded

ungraded

1 7.3
A road not made flat or drained that people cannot use when wet
  • adjective
  • /ʌnˈɡreɪdɪd/
: no pavimentado
  • The ungraded road was difficult to navigate.

Examples

  • An ungraded dirt path led to the remote farmhouse.

  • The truck got stuck on the ungraded road after the heavy rain.

  • Travelers were warned to avoid the ungraded sections during the wet season.

  • They warned us about the ungraded paths in the forest.

  • The hikers decided to avoid the ungraded path because it was too rocky and uneven.

  • After the heavy rain, the ungraded road became almost impassable due to muddy conditions.

  • Driving on the ungraded trail was challenging as it was filled with deep ruts and loose gravel.

Synonyms

undrivable
vsungraded
1 5.5

A road that cars cannot use safely because it is blocked or damaged

is unsuitable year round due to poor leveling and missing drainage

Antonyms

graded
6 3.2

People put things into levels by how good they are

How Passable

paved
41 1.3
rough
144 1.0
ungraded
1 7.3
impassable
11 5.3

Surface Forms

ungraded positive

Morphology

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

Formed by adding the negative prefix 'un-' to 'graded' (in the sense 'leveled' for roads), so the meaning 'not leveled' is directly inferable.

Etymology

Ungraded comes from un- 'not' and grade 'to make level' (as in 'to grade a road'), so an ungraded road is one that has not been made level and is often rough or unsafe in bad weather.