unbridged
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7.2
- adjective
- /ʌnˈbrɪdʒd/
- Many remote areas in the countryside remain unbridged, isolating communities from one another.
Examples
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The hikers had to cross several unbridged streams on their way to the mountain summit.
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The gap between the two musical worlds has, in that crucial sense, remained unbridged.
Academic text (2005) -
About all that went unspoken, unbridged.
Fiction book (1999) -
So so an unbridged C plus the nucleophile could have attacked from the top or the bottom if the bromine weren't bridging.
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We simply sat across the kitchen table from each other and wrote, sharing the sense of work and our seriousness about it and ignoring that unbridged and unremarked upon gulf.
Fiction book (1995) -
Her mother had got it from her mother, who came a bride to Ohio from western New York, clasping it against her noisy heart, out of the way of the high waters her husband had led her horse through, across unbridged streams, cherishing it more resolutely than the household stuff that had to be abandoned in pathless woods.
Blog text (30) -
"Thus Naumann is deeply wistful over his own divided, unbridged soul—half Christian, half Pagan; half love, half violence." (n23)
Academic text (2002) -
During the storm, they discovered an unbridged river that made return impossible without help.
Synonyms
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3.9
Not joined or linked to something else
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5.3
A road or place that has no bridge to cross a river
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
unbridged = bridged (transparent) = un + bridge + ed
The adjective is formed by adding the productive negative prefix 'un-' to the adjectival/past-participial form 'bridged', so the meaning is directly inferable.
Etymology
Unbridged is made of un- meaning 'not' and bridge, a structure for crossing water or a gap. So unbridged means 'not bridged', a place with no bridge, so people must use boats or cannot cross easily.