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📝 Not marked 🛤️ Not leveled
ungraded

ungraded

7.3
A road not made flat or drained that people cannot use when wet
  • adjective
  • /ʌnˈɡreɪdɪd/
translation icon : 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
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
3.2

People put things into levels by how good they are

How Passable

paved
1 1.3
rough
164 1.0
ungraded
7.3
impassable
13 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.