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unplaited

unplaited

6.1
Not braided or woven together
  • adjective
  • /ʌnˈpleɪtɪd/
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  • When Ava's mother picks her up that night, her eyes immediately scan her daughter, looking for unplaited hair.

Examples

  • Her dark-blond hair was disheveled, unplaited, coarse, and lustreless as a horse's mane, unwashed for days.

    Fiction book (1997)

  • She was winded by the time she reached it, and her hair had escaped from its careful coil and fallen, unplaited and reckless, to her shoulders.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • She was winded by the time she reached it, and her hair had escaped from its careful coil and fallen, unplaited to her shoulders.

  • Her dark-blond hair was disheveled, unplaited, and coarse, falling loosely around her face.

Synonyms

unwoven
vsunplaited
1 7.1

Made of threads or fibers that are left loose and not crossed to make cloth

is broader and also excludes items formed by twisting strands together

Antonyms

braided
1 2.7

Made by crossing strands together, like hair or rope

How Braided

braided
1 2.7
loose
155 1.0
unplaited
6.1

Surface Forms

unplaited positive

Morphology

unplaited = plait (transparent) = un + plait + ed

The word 'unplait' is clearly derived from 'plait' with the prefix 'un-' indicating negation.

Etymology

Unplaited comes from the prefix un- meaning 'not' and plait meaning 'braid' or 'fold', the same idea you see in the word pleat. So unplaited describes hair, ribbon, or rope that is not braided but left loose.