unheated
- adjective
- /ʌnˈhiːtɪd/
- 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.
- So we put her on the sun porch, the UN the unheated sun porch.
Examples
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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.
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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.
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I keep onions in cartons in an unheated storeroom, and garlic in a cool, dry storage closet.
Synonyms
Not heated so it is cold or not hot enough
Antonyms
How Warm
Surface Forms
Morphology
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.