⬛ Not curved 👄 Lips not rounded 🔢 Exact, not rounded

unrounded

7.3

A vowel sound made without rounding the lips, like the vowel in see

adjective
/ʌnˈraʊndɪd/

Specialized

: no redondeado

On the other hand, it also has front high and mid unrounded vowels, EE and A.

Examples

The English language has several unrounded vowels, such as the sound in the word 'see'.
In some dialects, the unrounded vowel sounds may differ significantly from rounded ones.
Phonetics studies how unrounded vowels are articulated without lip rounding.

Compounds

unrounded vowel

Specialized

7.8

A vowel sound you make with the lips relaxed or pulled back

How Rounded

rounded

1 2.4

unrounded

Specialized

7.3

spread

4 3.3

Surface Forms

unrounded positive

Morphology

unrounded = rounded (transparent) = un + round + ed

A straightforward negation by the productive prefix 'un-' applied to the adjective/past participle 'rounded'.

Etymology

The word unrounded is made of un- 'not' and round 'curved'. In speech, 'round' describes the shape of the lips, so an unrounded vowel is made with the lips not rounded.