unmowed
- adjective
- /ʌnˈmoʊd/
- The field had an untouched, unmowed appearance that attracted many butterflies and bees.
- unmowed grass
- unmowed lawn
Examples
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I mean, there are trees in like little wooded areas, like unmowed, just areas of people's yard.
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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.
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We decided to leave the yard unmowed this summer to encourage more wildflowers to bloom.
Synonyms
Left in its natural state without being cut or trimmed
Not cut or trimmed and left as it is
Grass or a lawn that people have not cut and let grow long
Antonyms
How Cut
Surface Forms
Morphology
unmowed = mowed (transparent) = un + mow + ed
The meaning is a direct negation of the participial adjective 'mowed' by adding un-.
Etymology
Unmowed comes from the part un- meaning 'not' and the verb mow meaning 'to cut grass', as in mower. So unmowed means 'not cut' and describes grass or fields left long and natural.