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💸 Not cleaned (illegal) 🧺 Not washed
unlaundered

unlaundered

3.9
Clothes or sheets that have not been washed
  • adjective
  • /ʌnˈlɔːndərd/
translation icon : sin lavar
  • Missy walked in carrying a basket heaped with unlaundered clothes.
  • unlaundered shirts

Examples

  • Jerusalem was probably better than for kings in Europe, where even potentates wore unlaundered wool and lived in bare-stone draughty keeps with rough furniture.

    Academic text (2011)

  • He avoided wearing unlaundered garments to the party, preferring fresh ones instead.

  • The unlaundered linens added an old-fashioned charm to the rustic cottage.

Synonyms

unwashed
vsunlaundered
8 1.0

Not washed with soap and water

is used mainly for clothing and linens rather than any item
unsanitized
vsunlaundered
  • US
5.7

Not cleaned and may have germs or dirt

focuses on lack of washing for clothes and linens rather than germ removal

Antonyms

to launder
10 3.0

To wash clothes and sheets with water and soap

How Clean

spotless
41 2.5
unlaundered
3.9
dirty
525 1.0
filthy
183 1.5

Surface Forms

unlaundered positive

Morphology

unlaundered = laundered (transparent) = un + launder + ed

Meaning 'not washed/cleaned' is directly and predictably derived from the past-participial base 'laundered' with the negative prefix 'un-'.

Etymology

Unlaundered is made from un- and launder, and launder comes from an old word meaning 'to wash', the same root you see in laundry. So unlaundered describes clothes or linens that are 'not washed'.