unweathered
- adjective
- /ʌnˈwɛðərd/
- In "similarly looks clean, unweathered by time; dominated by white and blue-purple, it's a cool abstraction, quite unlike her other legitimate train image from the period.
Examples
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Belugas confined to small leads during heavy ice years could be especially at risk if the open water was contaminated with unweathered oil (Hansen, 1992).
Academic text (2000) -
"We've done experiments showing that oil encapsulated in ice will remain unweathered through the winter," says Steve Potter, vice president and director of S.L. Ross.
Academic text (2012) -
Our Lord, Himself, cast or carved in different sizes and with varying degrees of competence; some of them so old they were almost featureless, others harsh, new, and unweathered.
Fiction book (1999) -
Her features, always merry, attained an even deeper luminous glow, and because of her corpulence, her skin stayed creamy and unweathered, her lips full and soft.
Fiction book (2000) -
The water chemistry, reflecting drainage from unweathered soils, is characterized by high pH (7.9 to 8.3) and high cation concentrations, but low nitrogen availability.
Academic text (2007) -
The artist preferred to use unweathered wood for his sculptures to showcase its natural beauty.
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The ruins were covered in moss, but the base stones remained unweathered by time or elements.
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During the inspection, the engineer noted that the unweathered metal showed no signs of rust.
Synonyms
Not damaged or rotten and still in a fresh, natural state
In normal condition with no signs of wear
Free from damage or harm
Antonyms
How Weathered
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Unweathered is formed from the prefix un- meaning 'not' and weather, which means 'wind, rain and sun' that slowly wear things away. So, unweathered describes something 'not changed by the weather', like a fresh piece of stone or a new statue.