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unraced

unraced

1 5.8
Has not taken part in a contest to see who is fastest
  • adjective
  • /ʌnˈreɪst/
: sin competir
  • She adopted an unraced dog from the shelter hoping to find it a loving home.

Examples

  • It was Mad Margaret, the unraced three-year-old filly Charlie had told me about.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • The unraced horse was trained diligently but never competed in any events.

  • He decided to leave his unraced bicycle in the garage until he was ready to ride it.

Surface Forms

unraced positive

Morphology

unraced = raced (transparent) = un + race + ed

The word 'unraced' is transparently derived from 'raced' with the prefix 'un-' indicating 'not'.

Etymology

Unraced is made from un- 'not' plus race 'a contest of speed', the same race you find in 'car race' or 'horse race'. So, unraced means 'not having taken part in a race', like a young horse that has never run in competition.