unreformed
- adjective
- /ˌʌn.rɪˈfɔːrmd/
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no reformado
- The best way of getting the NHS to adopt new technologies would be to encourage new players to enter the health service with business models designed to replace 'unsatisfactory, unreformed, and complacent' ways of treating patients.
- unreformed system
And you know, he was, he was really a hawk, a real unreformed, unrequited, requited Cold War hawk.
- And you know, he was, he was really a hawk, a real unreformed, unrequited, requited Cold War hawk.
Examples
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Africa is that its governments, reformed and unreformed alike, remain bankrupt facades, relating more to donor largesse than to the poverty of their own populations.
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However, if Old Sarum has come to symbolize the unreformed electoral system, it was hardly typical of it in practice.
Academic text (2010) -
But there is a danger that unreformed copyright comes with a very heavy price.
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The oddities of the unreformed electoral system were plain for all reformers to see.
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In a similar fashion, China is allowing a free yuan capital market to grow up in Hong Kong in parallel with the largely unreformed, restricted capital market on the mainland.
Academic text (2012) -
Yet China's unreformed political system suppresses such independent social organization and horizontal networking and instead reinforces vertical relationships.
Academic text (2004) -
Otherwise, the vast majority of the members voted steadily either for or against parliamentary reform, suggesting that a high degree of partisanship dominated the last two sessions of the unreformed Parliament.
Academic text (2010) -
Some unreformed proponents of the Marxist and Fabian preference for public ownership insist that suitable reforms could still salvage public enterprises as efficient economic entities.
Academic text (1998) -
The cases also have similar deep histories—namely, a long, multi-decade period of unreformed authoritarian rule prior to sanctions—which is good for comparability.
Academic text (2014) -
The unreformed political system has led to widespread dissatisfaction among the citizens.
Synonyms
2
3.8
Not changed from its original form
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6.5
Land or property left in its natural state and not developed
1
6.4
Not changed or edited after it was made
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5.4
Not changed to make a picture or sound better
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5.8
In its original state and not changed by people
Not changed from its original form or state
Not changed from its original form
In its original condition without repairs or updates
Left in its original condition without repairs
Not returned to a useful state after neglect
Still old or worn after attempts to improve it
Not opened or changed from the original condition
Not made more organized or efficient
Not changed from its original form
Still holding old moral or religious beliefs
Not changed to better behavior after many chances
Antonyms
How Reformed
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word unreformed comes from un- ('not') plus reform ('make again' or 'improve'). So an unreformed system is one that has not been changed or improved and still follows its old rules.