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unpunctured

unpunctured

5.6
Not having a hole that lets air or water out
  • adjective
  • /ʌnˈpʌŋkʧərd/
translation icon : sin perforar
  • The tire remained unpunctured after the long road trip, allowing us to drive without any issues.

Examples

  • So, between the developers anxious to develop (the area around the city of Niagara Falls is 'land locked' by the river to one side, so property is valuable), the city, and the school district, both of whom disregarded the need to keep the impermeable clay substrate unpunctured and the stipulations in the deed, disaster was only a matter of time...

    Blog text (10)

  • He concentrated on disentangling himself while retaining a maximum amount of unpunctured skin.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • On an unrelated note, do you have a unpunctured spleen I could borrow?

    Dirty Dishes (2022)

  • There wasn't a Chianti bottle left unshattered or a package of Trojans left unpunctured.

    Fiction book (2001)

  • You should keep the balloon unpunctured until the party begins to ensure it stays inflated.

  • The medic assured us that the bandage was applied correctly and that the wound was unpunctured.

Synonyms

unpierced
vsunpunctured
6.0

Not having a hole made through it

means the same and focuses equally on absence of through openings
unperforated
vsunpunctured
7.0

A thing that has no holes through it

refers to absence specifically of holes made by a sharp point
punctureless
vsunpunctured
8.4

Not able to be pierced by a sharp object

means only that no hole goes through, not that it resists hole formation
unpunched
vsunpunctured
6.3

Not having holes in it or not being hit

refers specifically to lack of holes made by tools or blows, not general hole absence

Antonyms

punctured
3.5

A thing with a hole made by something sharp

How Intact

pristine
63 5.1
intact
304 3.7
unpunctured
5.6
punctured
3.5

Surface Forms

unpunctured positive

Morphology

unpunctured = punctured (transparent) = un + puncture + ed

Formed by prefixing the productive negative 'un-' to the adjectival/past-participial 'punctured', yielding the straightforward meaning 'not pierced'.

Etymology

The word unpunctured is made of un- ('not') and puncture, which comes from an old word meaning 'to prick', like when a pin makes a hole. So unpunctured means 'not pricked' or 'not having a hole'.