unmedicated
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4.6
- adjective
- /ˌʌnˈmɛdɪˌkeɪtɪd/
:
sin medicación
- So I am unmedicated and it's a little wild.
- an unmedicated birth
So I am unmedicated and it's a little wild.
- So I am unmedicated and it's a little wild.
- And I remember my mother who had unmedicated, we would call it bipolar now.
Examples
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I'm completely unmedicated because I'm pregnant.
Blog text (32) -
This is an unmedicated natural birth the way nature intended (i.e., gravity).
Blog text (4) -
Women described it as being right up there with unmedicated childbirth; men described it as worse than childbirth.
Fiction book (2002) -
Although surprised, she was well-versed in labor; she'd delivered both her daughters unmedicated.
Blog text (17) -
Most of the births I attend, the mother is unmedicated (no drugs) and can assume some really interesting positions!
Blog text (4) -
I had a long, challenging birth—unmedicated, hallucinatory, poetic.
Academic text (2011) -
After two weeks of being unmedicated, he decided to consult his doctor about his symptoms.
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She felt more in tune with her body after experiencing an unmedicated recovery from surgery.
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He completed his therapy unmedicated, believing he could manage his anxiety naturally.
Synonyms
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3.3
Not having medical care for an illness or injury
A treatment that does not use medicine
A method that does not use medicine, for example exercise or counseling
Not involving drugs used to treat or prevent health problems
Antonyms
How Medicated
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4.6
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3.3
Surface Forms
Morphology
unmedicated = medicated (transparent) = un + medicate + ed
The negative prefix 'un-' is productively applied to the adjective 'medicated' to mean 'not treated with medication', a straightforward and regular formation.
Etymology
Unmedicated is built from un- meaning 'not' and medicate meaning 'to give medicine', the same idea you see in medicine and medical. So unmedicated means 'not treated with medicine', which is why an unmedicated cream or lozenge has no medicine in it.