unfought
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Something that has had no battle or clash
- adjective
- /ʌnˈfɔt/
:
no luchado
- Her dreams of adventure would be filled with tales of unfought battles and missed opportunities.
Examples
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The treaty ensured that the two nations remained at peace, with many potential conflicts left unfought.
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In the end, the unfought war left the land untouched, but the memories of what could have been lingered.
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Sometimes they surfaced in his words, the scars of unfought battles and unfinished deaths, merciless might-have-beens.
Fiction book (2002)
Antonyms
Surface Forms
unfought positive
Morphology
unfought = fought (transparent) = un + fought
The negation prefix 'un-' straightforwardly negates the participial form 'fought', yielding 'not having been fought'.
Etymology
The word unfought is made of un- meaning 'not' and fought, the past form of fight, which means 'to battle'. So, unfought literally means 'not having been fought', used for a battle, argument, or issue that never happened.