Skip to main content
unweathered

unweathered

7.5
Shows no change from rain, wind, or sun
  • adjective
  • /ʌnˈwɛðərd/
translation icon : no desgastado
  • 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

  • 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.

  • The ruins were covered in moss, but the base stones remained unweathered by time or elements.

  • During the inspection, the engineer noted that the unweathered metal showed no signs of rust.

Synonyms

unspoiled
vsunweathered
11 3.9

Not damaged or rotten and still in a fresh, natural state

is specific to change caused by weather rather than general decay
nondistressed
vsunweathered
5.1

In normal condition with no signs of wear

is limited to not being changed by weather or natural elements
unblighted
vsunweathered
7.0

Free from damage or harm

focuses on not being altered by weather instead of other harm

Antonyms

12 4.2

Worn and rough after being outside a long time

How Weathered

eroded
3.9
worn
4 2.1
weathered
12 4.2
unweathered
7.5
pristine
63 5.1

Surface Forms

unweathered positive

Morphology

unweathered = weathered (transparent) = un + weathered

Straightforward negation of the adjective 'weathered' by the productive prefix 'un-'.

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.