unstarched
- adjective
- /ʌnˈstɑrtʃt/
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- She preferred to wear unstarched blouses because they allowed for more movement and flexibility.
Examples
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He lacked a cravat—crowns were tight in his income bracket—but he had tied his chemise close to his neck in a mock-ruff, unstarched.
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She put on the unstarched pale green dress the hospital had provided; the alternative would have been to wear the blue flowered gown she'd been wearing, the one that tied in back and kept the patient prepared for bedpans, back rubs, and hypodermic needles.
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The soft, unstarched shirt felt comfortable against his skin on the warm summer day.
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The tailor recommended choosing unstarched fabric for a more relaxed and casual look at the party.
Synonyms
Not having starch, as in some foods or plants
How Starched
Surface Forms
Morphology
unstarched = starched (transparent) = un + starch + ed
The negative prefix 'un-' is directly applied to 'starched' to mean 'not treated with starch', which is a literal and regular formation.
Etymology
Unstarched comes from the idea that starch makes cloth 'stiff' and the part un- means 'not' or 'remove', so unstarched clothes are not stiff and stay soft.