unsoftened
6.5
Water that still contains minerals like calcium and magnesium and is hard
- adjective
- /ʌnˈsɔfənd/
- Specialized
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no tratado
- The water in our area is unsoftened, which makes it difficult to lather soap effectively.
Examples
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No perfume, just the slightest scent of some unsoftened soap, like those cakes of deep-yellow laundry soap one’s aunt tried to—I realized I had never loved anyone.
Fiction book (1997) -
She preferred the taste of unsoftened vegetables, believing they retained more nutrients.
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The unsoftened clay was too hard to mold into the desired shapes for the pottery.
How Treated
Surface Forms
unsoftened positive
Morphology
Etymology
Unsoftened is formed from un- 'not' and soften 'to make soft', so when water is called unsoftened it was 'not softened' and still contains hard minerals like calcium and magnesium.