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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/
: 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

nonwoven
vsunwoven
  • Specialized
1 6.1

Made from fibers joined together instead of being woven or knitted

refers to items not made by interlacing threads
unplaited
vsunwoven
1 6.1

Not braided or woven together

is used for items not formed by interlacing threads

Antonyms

woven
44 3.4

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

How Woven

woven
44 3.4
unwoven
1 7.1
nonwoven
  • Specialized
1 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.