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undarned

undarned

8.6
Cloth or clothing with a hole that has not been sewn closed
  • adjective
  • /ʌnˈdɑrnd/
translation icon : sin remendar
  • She tossed aside the undarned socks that had holes in them.

Examples

  • She was wearing her last pair of undarned silk stockings, which on such a blistering day had been an awful mistake.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • Despite numerous attempts to fix them, the undarned sleeves of her sweater remained torn.

  • He decided to wear the undarned shirt, even though it had a noticeable hole.

Synonyms

unpatched
vsundarned
5.5

A piece of clothing that has a tear or hole not mended

is left with a tear because no close sewing repair was used
unmended
vsundarned
6.7

Not fixed or healed after damage, for example a torn shirt and a broken friendship

is specific to fabric holes not fixed by close sewing repair

Antonyms

darned
1 4.2

Sewn to fix a hole in clothes like socks

Surface Forms

undarned positive

Morphology

undarned = darned (transparent) = un + darn + ed

Formed by adding the negative prefix 'un-' to the past-participial adjective 'darned'; meaning is directly 'not mended by darning'.

Etymology

The word undarned is made of un- meaning 'not' and darn meaning 'to sew a hole', as when you 'darn socks'. So undarned means 'not mended by darning' and describes cloth that still has a hole.