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unmended

unmended

6.7
Not fixed or healed after damage, for example a torn shirt and a broken friendship
  • adjective
  • /ʌnˈmɛndɪd/
translation icon : sin reparar
  • Despite several attempts to fix it, the old chair remained unmended, making it unusable.

Examples

  • Her heart felt unmended after the painful breakup, leaving her feeling lost and alone.

  • With that thought, I came to the curb and stepped into the same unmended hole I had turned my foot in the year before.

    Fiction book (1996)

  • The ground is unsown, and the house is unmended.

    The Bible: In the Beginning... (1966)

  • The abandoned house stood with its windows broken and its roof unmended for years.

Synonyms

unhealed
vsunmended
1 6.3

Not fully recovered after a physical injury or emotional hurt

covers both physical repair and emotional restoration, not only recovery
unrepaired
vsunmended
1 5.1

Not fixed after being damaged

also includes wounds or feelings that are not healed
unpatched
vsunmended
5.5

A piece of clothing that has a tear or hole not mended

covers any kind of repair or healing, not only patching
undarned
vsunmended
8.6

Cloth or clothing with a hole that has not been sewn closed

applies to all damage types, not only small textile holes

How Mended

healed
1.0
unrepaired
1 5.1
unmended
6.7
irreparable
24 7.6

Surface Forms

unmended positive

Morphology

unmended = mended (transparent) = un + mend + ed

Built by adding negative prefix 'un-' to the participial/adjectival 'mended'; the meaning 'not repaired/healed' is the direct negation of 'mended'.

Etymology

The word unmended comes from un- meaning 'not' and mend meaning 'to fix', like in mending, so an unmended hole or wound is something that has not been fixed or healed.