unstirred
- adjective
- /ʌnˈstɜrd/
- She poured the milk into her coffee without stirring, leaving it unstirred for a moment.
Examples
-
After allowing the paint to settle, it remained unstirred at the bottom of the can.
-
Given enough time, according to theory, it should return to its initial unstirred state.
Blog text (13) -
"The truth is it's a mistake ever to let things go unstirred."
Fiction book (1995) -
But the platform sat unstirred.
Fiction book (1991) -
At first, I was thinking if you move the spoon and cup in exactly the opposite way (in terms of momentum) as the way you moved them when you stirred it, you'd end up with unstirred coffee.
Blog text (13) -
Grasses of alpine clearings, once lush, now tawny as pelt; their taller-stemmed bunches drowsing unstirred.
Fiction book (2001) -
The mixture was left unstirred in the bowl so that the ingredients wouldn't combine before baking.
Synonyms
Completely pure with nothing added
Not mixed with other ingredients, showing its own taste or color
Cream or egg whites that are not beaten into foam
Pure and not mixed with other things
How Stirred
Surface Forms
Morphology
unstirred = stirred (transparent) = un + stir + ed
The negative prefix 'un-' is directly added to the past-participle/adjective 'stirred' to mean 'not stirred', a regular and obvious formation.
Etymology
Unstirred combines un- meaning 'not' and stir meaning 'to move or mix with a spoon'. So unstirred means 'not mixed', a liquid left without being moved, like tea left after you stop stirring.