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unworked

adj · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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1

adj

Meaning 1

Yet to be altered, carved, milled, worked, or otherwise changed from its natural or crude state.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • For years there stood in the sculptor's studio a two-ton block of unworked Italian marble.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: unwrought

Antonyms: overworked, overwrought

2

adj

Meaning 2

Describing an unaltered material found associated with human tool-making or other cultural activity.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: archaeology, history, human-sciences, sciences

Examples

  • Dozens of unworked obsidian cobbles were found buried with the deceased.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

From Middle English unwerked, unwerched, equivalent to un- + worked. Doublet of unwrought.

Across languages

Translations

11 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Czech: nezpracovaný — yet to be changed from its natural state
  • Czech: neopracovaný — yet to be changed from its natural state
  • Esperanto: kruda — yet to be changed from its natural state
  • Greek: αδούλευτος (adoúleftos) — yet to be changed from its natural state
  • Greek: αδέψητος (adépsitos) — yet to be changed from its natural state
  • Greek: ανεπεξέργαστος (anepexérgastos) — yet to be changed from its natural state
  • Ido: kruda — yet to be changed from its natural state
  • Lithuanian: žalias — yet to be changed from its natural state
  • Manx: neughrainnit — yet to be changed from its natural state
  • Serbo-Croatian: нео̀бра̄ђе̄н — yet to be changed from its natural state
  • Serbo-Croatian: neòbrāđēn — yet to be changed from its natural state