unweeded
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4.8
- adjective
- /ʌnˈwiːdɪd/
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- If the field remains unweeded, the crops will struggle to survive among the invasive plants.
- an unweeded garden
Examples
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'Tis an unweeded garden that grows to seed.
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'Tis an unweeded garden that grows to seed.
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'Tis an unweeded garden, that grows to seed, things rank and gross in nature possess it merely.
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Up and down the rows he went on his hands and knees until he finally found a partial row of cabbages and a small patch of unweeded radishes.
Fiction book (1990) -
The backyard is an unweeded patch, overwhelmed with tall grass and wildflowers.
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After weeks of neglect, the once beautiful garden has become an unweeded mess, full of thorns and brambles.
Synonyms
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3.4
Covered with plants that grow out of control
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3.0
Full of wild plants that people do not want
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4.9
Not given care, like a garden
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5.1
Not neat or tidy in appearance
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5.1
Land that is not prepared for growing crops
How Overgrown
Surface Forms
Morphology
unweeded = weeded (transparent) = un + weed + ed
Standard negation of the past-participial adjective 'weeded' to indicate 'not cleared of weeds'; straightforward for learners.
Etymology
Unweeded comes from un- 'not' and weed 'a wild plant', so it simply means a place not cleared of weeds. Picture an overgrown garden or path full of weeds that make it hard to walk, and you can see why unweeded describes ground left full of unwanted plants.