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unstuffed

unstuffed

1 3.7
Not filled with soft material, like a pillow or toy
  • adjective
  • /ʌnˈstʌft/
: sin relleno
  • For a lighter meal, consider making an unstuffed bell pepper filled only with vegetables.
  • unstuffed turkey
  • unstuffed bird

Examples

  • The children's toys lay scattered around the room, many left unstuffed in their boxes.

  • Black light posters and Indian bedspreads hung on the cement walls, and the moss green furniture was coming unstuffed.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • You just got unstuffed.

    ThanksKilling 3 (2012)

  • The chef prepared an unstuffed turkey to ensure it remained juicy and tender.

Antonyms

filled
946 1.0

Full of something that takes up most of it

stuffed
183 2.2

Filled with something inside, often for cooking or as a toy

How Filled

overstuffed
7 3.8
stuffed
183 2.2
filled
20 1.0
unstuffed
1 3.7
hollow
14 3.8
empty
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

unstuffed positive

Morphology

unstuffed = stuffed (transparent) = un + stuff + ed

The negative prefix 'un-' simply negates the adjective 'stuffed' (meaning 'filled with stuffing'), a direct and regular morphological operation.

Etymology

Unstuffed starts with un- ('not') and the stuffed part comes from stuff, which means 'filling', the soft material inside a toy or pillow. So unstuffed means 'without that filling', like a pillow or toy that has been emptied.