untended
3
4.9
- adjective
- /ʌnˈtɛndɪd/
:
desatendido
- The playground was left untended, with weeds growing through the cracked pavement.
- untended garden
- untended lawn
- untended fields
Examples
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A few large buildings had been erected on a grid of wide, modern-looking streets, but the absence of regular vehicular traffic meant grass grew long and untended in the thoroughfares, which became a playground for children and a pasture for livestock.
Academic text (2010) -
Smoke rises from an untended garbage can.
Academic text (1993) -
- His flock goes untended in the field.
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And every other seed of plot that had been planted over the previous years was left untended and forgotten as well.
Academic text (2009) -
The untended wheel turns slowly, pointing the ship toward the not-so-distant lights of L.A.
Fiction book (1998) -
From the moment Piero entered, he could tell there was little to admire in the untended lodgings, grimly furnished as they were.
Fiction book (1992) -
Chanda passed untended furnaces and their bellows, and piles of unfinished knives and spears.
Fiction book (2000) -
After years of neglect, the untended house became a dangerous eyesore.
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The community decided to clean up the untended park that had become overgrown and littered.
Synonyms
22
3.6
Left without anyone watching or caring for them
15
3.4
Not cared for or shown affection
8
3.3
Not having medical care for an illness or injury
1
4.2
Not looked after and left in bad condition
1
5.5
Not looked after and left in bad condition
Not cared for or looked after so it becomes damaged
A task or problem that no one has dealt with yet
Left without treatment after a cut or other injury
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Untended breaks into un- meaning 'not' and tend meaning 'to care for', and you can see the same idea in attend which means 'to give attention'. So untended means 'not cared for' or left without attention.