unlived
- adjective
- /ʌnˈlɪvd/
- Hey, a life without risk is a life unlived, my friend.
- unlived life
Examples
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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.
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He often reflects on the unlived moments he wished he had experienced.
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Her book explores the concept of unlived lives and the choices we make.
Surface Forms
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.