unmowed

Examples

• All

• I mean, there are trees in like little wooded areas, like unmowed, just areas of people's yard.

• A rusty iron fence tottered around the unmowed yard.

  Fiction book (1990)

• The unmowed lawn.

  Fiction book (1999)

• A bat dropped through the air, out over the unmowed grass studded with dandelions, and she envied the gnat or mosquito in its purview.

  Fiction book (2000)

• The children loved playing in the tall, unmowed grass behind their house.

• We decided to leave the yard unmowed this summer to encourage more wildflowers to bloom.

Synonyms

U

uncut

vsunmowed

6 3.9

Left in its natural state without being cut or trimmed

is narrower, used mainly for grass and fields rather than all objects

U

unmown

vsunmowed

1 6.1

Grass or a lawn that people have not cut and let grow long

is the same meaning but differs only in spelling or regional form

U

unclipped

vsunmowed

4.9

Not cut or trimmed and left as it is

is focused on ground plants left long rather than trimming of hair or edges

Antonyms

C

to cut

∞ 1.0

To divide something using a sharp tool, often into pieces

How Cut

trimmed

1.0

mown

1 2.3

unmowed

4.2

overgrown

52 3.4

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology