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unhealed

unhealed

1 6.3
Not fully recovered after a physical injury or emotional hurt
  • adjective
  • /ˌʌnˈhiːld/
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  • 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?

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Examples

  • 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?

  • Well, let me first say my my talk was about the unhealed war wounds of World War One.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Where are the unhealed wounds within sight of ourself that we can actually go deeper into and heal?

  • 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

raw
vsunhealed
46 3.8

Painful red skin caused by rubbing or being hurt

refers instead to incomplete recovery rather than fresh exposed soreness
raw wound
vsunhealed
  • NSFW
1 6.6

An injury where the skin is broken and what is under the skin shows

describes instead an injury not fully healed or recovered
unmended
vsunhealed
6.7

Not fixed or healed after damage, for example a torn shirt and a broken friendship

is about incomplete recovery rather than repair or restoration

Antonyms

1.0

Not sick or hurt anymore and back to normal

3.1

Back to normal health after being sick or injured

How Healed

recovered
3.1
healed
1.0
healing
2.6
unhealed
1 6.3
raw
46 3.8

Surface Forms

unhealed positive

Morphology

unhealed = healed (transparent) = un + heal + ed

Formed by adding the negative prefix 'un-' to 'healed', yielding a straightforward negation 'not healed'.

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.