unplowed
1
6.2
- adjective
- /ʌnˈplaʊd/
- US
- We turned onto an unplowed lane that dropped into the tamarack and pine.
- an unplowed road
- an unplowed street
- an unplowed field
Examples
-
The turnoff to my parents' road was unplowed, as usual.
-
And a one-horsepower sleigh doesn't go so fast through unplowed snow.
Fiction book (1997) -
Cars and trucks are backed up on the unplowed road.
Fiction book (1997) -
Cutting through on a back road to save time, C.R. reached an unplowed road.
Fiction book (1999) -
The little land we'd held on to went unplowed, pushing up the only crops.
Fiction book (1995) -
The word now was Texas, another state, and the location in it was to be Bandera County, where the land would be cheap, unplowed, and rich.
Fiction book (2002) -
We let the horses amble across an unplowed field, one that had been fallow for a while, so the rows had almost been smoothed away.
Fiction book (1996) -
In boroughs other than Manhattan, streets went unplowed for two days, ambulances could not reach residents, and heating fuel couldn't be delivered.
Blog text (9) -
Emergency vehicles are having trouble getting to the scene on the unplowed roads.
Synonyms
4
5.7
Left unplanted for a season so the soil can recover
1
5.1
Land that is not prepared for growing crops
1
6.6
Land not plowed or used for growing crops
1
5.7
Land left in its natural state and not farmed
1
4.2
Land people do not use for growing crops or keeping animals
1
6.3
Land that people do not use for growing crops
Antonyms
How Ploughed
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Unplowed is made of un- meaning 'not' and plowed, from plow meaning 'to turn over the soil', so unplowed describes land that has not been turned by a plow and stays rough or wild.