unemptied
- adjective
- /ʌnˈɛmptid/
:
no vaciado
- Then he went back into the house and into his wife's workroom and looked around at the half-finished watercolors, which were her latest obsession, and the mess and the clothes on the floor and the unemptied wastebaskets, and he sat down at her desk and opened the daybook she left out for him to see if there were any new men since the last time she made a scene.
Examples
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And it was there still, unemptied, the ashtray in which Lucille had stubbed out her three cigarettes last night.
Fiction book (2001) -
The smell in the kitchen was terrible because there were several unemptied trash cans.
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After the party, the living room was littered with unemptied cups and plates.
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He noticed the unemptied backpack left by the door, still carrying yesterday's lunch and homework.
Synonyms
8
2.1
Not eaten or drunk and still left as it was
1
8.4
Left inside a container, body, or machine and not released
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4.5
Something left because no one ate or used it
Still available because it is not used up
How Empty
Surface Forms
Morphology
unemptied = emptied (transparent) = un + empty + ed
The negation 'un-' applied to the past participle 'emptied' yields 'not having been emptied', a direct and regular negation of the prior state.
Etymology
Unemptied is made of the prefix un- meaning 'not' and the word empty meaning 'no things inside'. So unemptied means 'not having been emptied', which is why it still contains what was inside.