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unlived

unlived

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Something someone does not experience in life
  • adjective
  • /ʌnˈlɪvd/
: no vivido
  • Hey, a life without risk is a life unlived, my friend.
  • unlived life

Examples

  • But sometimes I get the feeling that the unused part—the unlived life—spoils, that you get cancer because it sits like fruit and rots.

    Fiction book (1997)
  • "Do not fear death, but rather the unlived life; you don't have to live forever, you just have to live.

    Blog text (4)
  • Now I regret those unlived bits of life.

    Fiction book (1996)
  • Compared to his office, it had a distinctly unlived-in look and absolutely no atmosphere, sexual or otherwise.

    Fiction book (1996)
  • It always seemed to her that there was something oddly unlived-in about the Kogans' house.

    Fiction book (1991)
  • Inside, it had the same slightly unlived-in Kogan feel that Paula remembered from her girlhood.

    Fiction book (1991)
  • Insisting that human instincts and vital energy should be educated instead of suppressed, Read warned, "Destructiveness is the outcome of unlived life."

    Academic text (1997)
  • Many people fear dying with unlived dreams that they never pursued.

  • He often reflects on the unlived moments he wished he had experienced.

  • Her book explores the concept of unlived lives and the choices we make.

Surface Forms

unlived positive

Morphology

unlived = lived (transparent) = un + live + lived

The adjective is formed by adding 'un-' to the participial/adjectival form 'lived', a standard negation of experience.

Etymology

The word unlived is formed from un- meaning 'not' and lived from 'live', so it means 'not lived' and describes dreams or moments someone never experienced.