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🖐️ Without nails 🪚 Not fastened 📝 Not decided
unnailed

unnailed

9.9
Having no fingernails or toenails
  • adjective
translation icon : sin uñas
  • The doctor explained that the toes would remain unnailed until new nails grew back.

Examples

  • Some rare genetic conditions can cause a person to be born unnailed.

  • After the surgery, the patient's fingers were temporarily unnailed to allow for healing.

  • Her fingers looked unnailed after the accident.

  • The child had unnailed toes from a rare condition.

  • The doctor explained that the patient's fingers were unnailed after the surgery to help with recovery.

  • She was born unnailed, a rare condition that affected her fingernails and toenails.

  • His unnailed toenails were a result of the treatment he had undergone for his condition.

Synonyms

nailless
vsunnailed
6.1

Without nails on fingers, toes, or in a joint used in building

is specific to people, meaning missing fingernails or toenails

Surface Forms

unnailed positive

Morphology

unnailed = nailed (transparent) = un + nail + ed

The adjective is formed by the productive prefix 'un-' negating the participial/adjectival 'nailed', yielding a straightforward 'not nailed' / 'without nails' meaning.

Etymology

Unnailed is made of un- 'not' and nailed from 'nail', so it literally means 'not having nails'. Imagine fingers or toes with no nails. They are unnailed.