unmade
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2.3
- adjective
- /ʌnˈmeɪd/
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- The other room featured an unmade bed, a quilt thrown back like an invitation.
Bone dry light defining the unmade bed.
- Bone dry light defining the unmade bed.
- It shows that leaving the bed unmade and the sheets exposed to light is your best defense against microscopic dust mite.
Examples
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Mary Jane Cannary was a dear woman, but she looked like an unmade bed.
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He saw the unmade bed and slipped away.
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Do you always look like an unmade bed?
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I look like a large, unmade bed with a shopping bag attached.
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The bed was unmade, just as she had left it at 3:24 in the morning.
Fiction book (1998) -
In the fifth, there was an old chair and dresser, and an unmade bed.
Fiction book (1997) -
He said, "Madam, you look just like an unmade bed."
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I could see an unmade bed shoved back under the eaves.
Fiction book (2000) -
Kathryn was sleeping facedown in a quilted bathrobe on an unmade bed, her arms tucked under her.
Fiction book (1998) -
After a long night, I woke up to find my room with an unmade bed and clothes strewn everywhere.
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Antonyms
How Neat
Surface Forms
Morphology
unmade = made (transparent) = un + made
The adjective is a straightforward negative formed with the productive prefix 'un-' applied to 'made' (not having been made).
Etymology
Unmade is built from un- meaning 'not' and made, the past of make, which means 'to put things in order' or 'to prepare'. So an unmade bed is a bed that is not 'made' — its sheets and blankets are not arranged neatly.