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unheated

unheated

4 2.8
Not made warm or hot
  • adjective
  • /ʌnˈhiːtɪd/
: sin calefacción
  • I'm going to an unheated vacation house in the middle of nowhere.
  • unheated room
  • unheated skin
  • unheated surface

So we put her on the sun porch, the UN the unheated sun porch.

Examples

  • The fabric was cold from being stored in Ruth's unheated basement.

    Fiction book (1994)

  • The unheated bus rattled and groaned uphill for miles on a narrow highway between wintry fields.

    Fiction book (1997)

  • So they have gone nearly half a year, half a year in this sand in just an unheated garage.

  • I too stayed in an unheated cottage with no hot water.

    Academic text (1993)

  • As former 'social parasites,' they were made to live through five Russian winters in unheated rooms.

    Academic text (1991)

  • A long tramp through the snow to an unheated lecture hall set the stage for going hungry after the performance.

    Academic text (1999)

  • Our basement clubhouse was unheated, and already we were thinking about college and after-school jobs.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • Jakubowski and Cleaver don't keep livestock, and the combination of cold weather and unheated workshops makes working on new machines unpleasant.

    Academic text (2011)

  • The room remained unheated because there was no reason to heat it.

  • I keep onions in cartons in an unheated storeroom, and garlic in a cool, dry storage closet.

Synonyms

unwarmed
vsunheated
6.0

Not heated so it is cold or not hot enough

is the identical sense but differs only as an alternative written form

Antonyms

warm
∞ 1.0

Having a comfortable level of heat, often after recent use

heated
1.0

Made warm by fire, electricity, or the sun

How Warm

hot
∞ 1.0
heated
1.0
warm
∞ 1.0
unheated
4 2.8
cold
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

unheated positive

Morphology

unheated = heated (transparent) = un + heat + ed

The negative prefix 'un-' is added to the participial adjective 'heated' to produce a straightforward 'not heated' meaning.

Etymology

The word unheated comes from the beginning part un- meaning 'not' and the root heat meaning 'to make warm', so it simply means 'not made warm'. A helpful way to remember it is to think of an unheated room as the opposite of a room with a heater.