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⚖️ Not corrected 🩹 Not treated
unredressed

unredressed

9.3
Not made right after a wrong or unfair action
  • adjective
  • /ˌʌn.rɪˈdrɛst/
  • Formal
translation icon : no reparado
  • After hearing their complaints, she realized how many unredressed issues had been affecting the community.

Examples

  • The victims of the accident felt that their unredressed grievances were ignored by the authorities.

  • The argument is that such an alternative would avoid much of the chilling effect that is Sullivan's principal concern while reducing unredressed damage to reputation.

    Academic text (2001)

  • He lived with unredressed wrongs that haunted him throughout his life.

Synonyms

uncorrected
vsunredressed
3 5.1

Still has mistakes or problems that are not fixed

focuses on wrongs or grievances rather than neutral remaining faults
unrectified
vsunredressed
8.2

A mistake or problem that has not been fixed

is used mainly for wrongs or grievances rather than general faults
unremedied
vsunredressed
7.2

A problem or mistake that is not fixed

is used especially for wrongs or grievances rather than general fixes

How Redressed

ignored
1.6
unredressed
  • Formal
9.3

Surface Forms

unredressed positive

Morphology

unredressed = redressed (transparent) = un + redress + ed

The prefix 'un-' straightforwardly negates the adjective 'redressed' to mean 'not redressed'.

Etymology

Unredressed is made of un- 'not' and redress 'to set right'. So when a wrong or complaint is unredressed, it has not been fixed or corrected.