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unwoven

unwoven

1 7.1
Made of threads or fibers that are left loose and not crossed to make cloth
  • adjective
  • /ʌnˈwoʊən/
translation icon : no tejido
  • She admired the beautiful patterns in the unwoven cloth, appreciating the raw material before it was completed.
  • come unwoven

Examples

  • Her own sentences come unwoven under her hands; for example, "Someone passing" stands for a sentence, as do myriad phrases undone by dashes and the ellipses of incompletion.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • The end of me, myself unwoven?

    Fiction book (1994)

  • The strands of our life stories become unwoven, and we can no longer fit them together as a whole.

    Academic text (1999)

  • Just as Isa hears the woman scream in the space between the chimes, so does Woolf let Philomela speak by proxy in the gaps of unwoven text.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • The old basket was becoming unwoven as its strands began to separate.

  • The artisan decided to showcase the unwoven fibers to highlight the natural beauty of the material.

Synonyms

unplaited
vsunwoven
6.1

Not braided or woven together

is used for items not formed by interlacing threads
nonwoven
vsunwoven
  • Specialized
6.1

Made from fibers joined together instead of being woven or knitted

refers to items not made by interlacing threads

Antonyms

woven
1 3.4

Made by crossing threads and strips together, like a rug or basket

How Woven

woven
1 3.4
unwoven
1 7.1
nonwoven
  • Specialized
6.1

Surface Forms

unwoven positive

Morphology

unwoven = woven (transparent) = un + woven

The adjective is formed by the productive negating prefix 'un-' added to the participial adjective 'woven', so the meaning is a direct negation of 'woven'.

Etymology

The word unwoven is made from un- meaning 'not' and woven, from weave meaning 'to cross threads'. So unwoven literally means 'not woven', as when threads or strips are left loose instead of made into cloth.