unhealed
- adjective
- /ˌʌnˈhiːld/
- So many people are unhealed and they're responding out of trauma that they have to deal with in their own personal life.
- unhealed wounds
What is this moment here to show me about my unhealed self?
- What is this moment here to show me about my unhealed self?
- The root of countless problems in our society lies in a sleeping giant, unhealed trauma.
- The key is to not come into these new situations unhealed from your previous disappointments and hurts.
- Once you go to the depth of it, you can see any things that impacted people, traumas, dramas, unhealed issues, and that's what's running them.
- So trauma is a wound that you sustain, which then shows up later on in your life unhealed.
- And this thesis that he has that that most addicts or addictions can be traced back to unresolved or unhealed childhood trauma.
- That's not just current, that's mountains of unhealed residue from past traumas, from past cultural traumas, global traumas.
- So many people are unhealed and they're responding out of trauma that they have to deal with in their own personal life.
- The way that paragraph described the notion that in these close relationships, the unhealed parts of ourselves are going to pop up and rear their heads.
- Yeah, all of that is like a a product of this unhealed wound.
- And so essentially the unfortunate reality is, you know, an to an unhealed heart, true love can be very scary.
Examples
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Now, when I write my Great Small Things, I see clearly that my childhood is an unhealed wound.
Academic text (2011) -
But it left wounds unhealed for decades.
Academic text (2004) -
What is this moment here to show me about my unhealed self?
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Well, let me first say my my talk was about the unhealed war wounds of World War One.
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The root of countless problems in our society lies in a sleeping giant, unhealed trauma.
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The key is to not come into these new situations unhealed from your previous disappointments and hurts.
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The way that paragraph described the notion that in these close relationships, the unhealed parts of ourselves are going to pop up and rear their heads.
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Where are the unhealed wounds within sight of ourself that we can actually go deeper into and heal?
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Such extreme sensitivity over history textbook matters reveals the depth of old wounds and the extent to which they remain unhealed in East Asia.
Academic text (2003) -
After years of neglect, her emotional scars remained unhealed, affecting her ability to trust others.
Synonyms
Painful red skin caused by rubbing or being hurt
An injury where the skin is broken and what is under the skin shows
Not fixed or healed after damage, for example a torn shirt and a broken friendship
Antonyms
How Healed
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Unhealed is built from the prefix un- meaning 'not' and the root heal meaning 'to make whole or get better', the same root you see in health. So unhealed describes a wound or an emotional hurt that is 'not recovered' and has not yet gotten better.