unmortared

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Made of stones or bricks joined without mortar

adjective
/ʌnˈmɔrtərd/

: sin mortero

The nearly vertical freestanding walls made of uncut, unmortared rock that support the conduits show little evidence of deterioration, even after 500 years.

Examples

To the north, east, and south, the garden is bounded by three rugged walls of unmortared chunks of granite.

Fiction book (1995)
The floor is made of unmortared bricks sitting on a bedding of sand.
I reached out and pulled a stone right out of the middle of his unmortared wall.
To the north, east, and south, the garden is bounded by three rugged walls of unmortared chunks of granite.

Synonyms

uncemented

vsunmortared

Specialized

1 6.8

Loose rock or sand not held together by hard material

is about lack of mortar in joints rather than lack of mineral cement

mortarless

vsunmortared

Specialized

1 6.6

Made without mortar, with stones or bricks placed tightly together

is used more generally for absence of mortar rather than only in building

Antonyms

secure

89 3.3

Firmly fixed so it will not move or break

How Joined

unmortared

1 8.7

separate

844 2.1

Surface Forms

unmortared positive

Morphology

unmortared = mortared (transparent) = un + mortar + ed

Formed by productive prefixation 'un-' to the adjective 'mortared', yielding a straightforward negative meaning.

Etymology

The word unmortared breaks into un- meaning 'not' and mortar, the 'sticky mix used to join stones or bricks'. So unmortared describes walls or paths where the stones are simply stacked without that joining material.