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unpaved

unpaved

4 4.0
A surface such as a road that is not covered with a hard smooth layer like asphalt
  • adjective
  • /ʌnˈpeɪvd/
translation icon : sin pavimentar
  • The truck rumbles along a stretch of bumpy, unpaved road.
  • unpaved roads

Most of things are unpaved and trees all cut down.

Examples

  • After a short half-hour, he slowed to turn into the entrance of an unpaved road.

    Fiction book (2001)

  • Most of its length could be reached only by unpaved maintenance pathways.

    Academic text (1998)

  • The streets were unpaved and badly rutted.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • The main park entrance lies a day's journey by unpaved roads from the nearest city, Douala.

    Academic text (1996)

  • Three county black-and-whites were parked along an unpaved but graded road.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • There he paused to wipe the mud from the unpaved street off his boots before he knocked on the door.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • Solly strains to see out his dirty windshield with the headlights as his car bumps along the unpaved road.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • To judge by the jolting and bouncing when they picked up speed, they were on an unpaved road seamed with ruts and pitted with potholes.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • Piles of refuse—horse dung and rotting vegetables—overflowed the gutters and lay along the unpaved paths.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • The outdoor festival was held on an unpaved path that twisted through the forest.

Synonyms

dirt
vsunpaved
2.4

A road that has no pavement and is made of soil and small stones

is the simple absence of a hard smooth surface, not poor leveling or drainage

Antonyms

paved
1 1.3

Covered with a hard surface like concrete or stones to allow walking and driving

How Paved

paved
1 1.3
gravel
99 1.4
unpaved
4 4.0

Surface Forms

unpaved positive

Morphology

unpaved = paved (transparent) = un + pave + ed

The meaning is a straightforward negation of 'paved' using the productive prefix 'un-'.

Etymology

Unpaved starts with un- meaning 'not' and the rest comes from pave, which means 'to cover a road with a hard surface', as in pavement. So unpaved means 'not covered' with asphalt or concrete, like a dirt or gravel road.