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unvaccinated

unvaccinated

7 4.7
Not having received a vaccine that protects against a disease
  • adjective
  • /ʌnˈvæksɪˌneɪtɪd/
translation icon : no vacunado
  • Published estimates of laboratory-confirmed influenza incidence in unvaccinated persons are listed in the online Technical Appendix Table 2.
  • unvaccinated patients
  • unvaccinated individuals
  • unvaccinated children

He even says that you're equally likely to transmit the disease if you were vaccinated or unvaccinated.

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Examples

Synonyms

unimmunized
vsunvaccinated
  • US
1 7.5

Not having had a vaccine that protects you from a disease

is the same meaning but uses an alternative wording
uninoculated
vsunvaccinated
1 7.4

Not having had a vaccine that protects against disease

is limited to absence of a vaccine for a particular disease
unshot
vsunvaccinated
8.6

Not given a vaccine injection

refers specifically to not having received a vaccine for a particular disease

Antonyms

A person who has had a shot to protect them from a disease

How Protected

unvaccinated
7 4.7

Surface Forms

unvaccinated positive

Morphology

unvaccinated = vaccinated (transparent) = un + vaccinate + ed

Negative prefix 'un-' is added to 'vaccinated' to yield 'not having received a vaccine', a directly inferable meaning for learners.

Etymology

Unvaccinated breaks into un- meaning 'not' and vaccine, from the Latin vacca meaning 'cow', because the first vaccine used cowpox to protect people. So unvaccinated means 'not given a vaccine', not protected by vaccination.