unpressed
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- adjective
- /ʌnˈprɛst/
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- A squarish man resembling an ingot of pig iron in a permanently unpressed suit made his way across the cafeteria to their table and dropped into an empty chair.
- an unpressed suit
Examples
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But he did have on his Sunday best, which took on the form of an unpressed dingy off-white suit, capped by a crumpled fedora.
Fiction book (1996) -
And you can leave them unpressed, sewn down into the waistband, but unpressed and loose.
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Then squares of this unpressed product, one or two inches across, are deep-fried.
Academic text (2001) -
It's the unpressed seam of an extremely weirdly placed dart.
Blog text (16) -
He was wearing the same baggy, unpressed suit and he still hadn't managed to shave.
Fiction book (1992) -
I use the :active pseudo-class for the depressed button style and use the .delay() trick you just mentioned to give the button a chance to become "unpressed" again.
Blog text (20) -
Josie looked at the faded pink dress, unpressed and hanging loosely from Doris' high waist.
Fiction book (1990) -
He arrived at the meeting in an unpressed shirt and wrinkled trousers, making a poor first impression.
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The actor showed up to the premiere in an unpressed tuxedo that looked like it hadn't seen an iron in days.
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Despite being unpressed, her dress still had a certain charm that made her stand out at the party.
Synonyms
Clothes with creases or wrinkles that are not smoothed
Dry after washing but before ironing or pressing
Antonyms
How Pressed
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word unpressed comes from un- meaning 'not' and press meaning 'to flatten' or 'smooth', like when you use an iron on clothes. So unpressed describes clothing that has not been smoothed by ironing.