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unstarted

unstarted

1 4.3
Not yet begun
  • adjective
  • /ʌnˈstɑːrtɪd/
translation icon : no comenzado
  • The artist has many unstarted paintings waiting for her inspiration to strike.

You know it's it's an unstarted it's all for you pack.

Examples

  • The project remains unstarted due to budget constraints.

  • As a result of updating my schedule on some activities, it automatically inserted a start no earlier than constraint; for example, when I told the project to schedule unstarted activities after the current data date.

    Blog text (19)
  • You know it's it's an unstarted it's all for you pack.

  • The husband longs for all the unfinished things that he and his wife were making when she died, and all the unstarted dreams of what they would have made if she had lived.

    Fiction book (1992)
  • An eternal wanderer, he now lives in an exotic city somewhere in the 'Third World,' where he is held prisoner by an unfinished novel (or, more precisely, an unstarted novel).

    Blog text (2)
  • After the meeting, the team realized their plan was still unstarted and needed immediate action.

Synonyms

unbegun
vsunstarted
7.4

Not yet started

is the same meaning but in a different written form
unactivated
vsunstarted
6.5

Not started or turned on so it cannot be used

is about not having begun rather than activation

How Started

completed
1.0
ready to roll
  • Informal
29 4.3
unstarted
1 4.3

Surface Forms

unstarted positive

Morphology

unstarted = started (transparent) = un + start + ed

Formed by prefixing 'un-' to 'started' (the past-participle/adjective of 'start'), giving a straightforward negation meaning.

Etymology

Unstarted is made from the small word un- meaning 'not' and the verb start meaning 'to begin'. So unstarted simply means 'not begun', like a project or book that has not yet been started.