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Unseasoned

Definition: Unseasoned

Unseasoned

Adjective

1. Not aged or processed; "unseasoned timber".

2. Without salt or seasoning.

3. Not tried or tested by experience; "unseasoned artillery volunteers"; "still untested in battle"; "an illustrator untried in mural painting".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "unseasoned" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)


Synonyms: Unseasoned

Synonyms: unsalted (adj), untested (adj), untried (adj). (additional references)
Antonym: seasoned (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Unseasoned

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Desuetude

Adjective: unaccustomed, unused, unwonted, unseasoned, uninured, unhabituated, untrained; new; green; (unskilled); unhackneyed.

Nonpreparation

Unhatched, unfledged, unnurtured, unlicked, untaught, uneducated, uncultivated,. untrained, untutored, undrilled, unexercised; deckle-edged; precocious, premature; undigested, indigested; unmellowed, unseasoned, unleavened.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Unseasoned

English words defined with "unseasoned": BeathUnseason. (references)
Specialty definitions using "unseasoned": retort engineertimber-treating-tank operator, TREATING ENGINEER, treating-plant operator. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Unseasoned

DomainTitle

Books

  • Nrjd on 387 Glizzits a Day: An Insider's Guide to a Country That No Unseasoned Traveler Would Not Want to Be Caught Dead Having Not Visited (reference)

  • Product Differentiation in Auditing: Auditor Choice in the Market for Unseasoned New Issues (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Unseasoned

AuthorQuotation

Publilius Syrus

No pleasure endures unseasoned by variety.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Unseasoned

"Unseasoned" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unseasoned" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%6143,867

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Unseasoned

Expressions using "unseasoned": unseasoned investment unseasoned wood. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Unseasoned

Language Translations for "unseasoned"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

pa erëza, i pastazhinuar, i papjekur (childish, half-baked, immature, raw, slack-baked, unbacked, unbaked, uncooked, underripe, unripe). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏قبل ميعاده. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

суров (austere, coarse, crude, dour, draconian, flinty, green, grim, hard, harsh, iron, iron-bound, raw, rigorous, rough, rude, rugged, severe, smart, stiff, uncharitable, uncooked, uncouth, unpitying), нетрениран (untrained), неопитен (callow, coltish, fresh, green, inexpert, maiden, raw, sucking, unexperienced, unpractised, unschooled, unsophisticated, untutored, unversed, unworldly, verdant, young), незакален, без подправки. (various references)

   

Czech

  

syrový (green, raw, uncooked), nezralý (green, immature, unripe), nezkušený (green, inexperienced, raw, unskillful, unworldly), neostřílený, neokořenìný. (various references)

   

Danish

  

raatrae (fresh wood, green wood, unseasoned wood), investering der endnu ikke giver sit fulde afkast (unseasoned investment). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

vers hout (fresh wood, green wood, unseasoned wood), nog niet geheel rendabele belegging (unseasoned investment), groen hout (fresh wood, green wood, unseasoned wood). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

höystämätön (unspiced). (various references)

   

French

  

hors de saison. (various references)

   

German

  

nicht gereift. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ανάρτυτοσ. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

fûszerezetlen. (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

tak berbumbu. (various references)

   

Italian

  

scondito (plain, undressed). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

easonedunsay

   

Portuguese

  

verde (crude, green, vert), sem experiência (sappy, unfleshed, unpractised, unskilled), não temperado (raw, rawhide), não sazonado, não habituado, não aclimatado, imaturo (childish, half-baked, immature, tender, unbaked, unformed, unripe, young, youthful). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

necondimentat (flavorless, flavourless, mild), fãrã sare şi piper, fãrã gust (flash, insipid, mawkish, milk and water, vapid). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

невыдержанный, непросушенный, непривыкший (unused). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

nezreo (callow, immature, soporific, unripe, verdant), nezačinjen, neblagovremen (ill timed, inopportune, unseasonable, untimely). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

madera verde (fresh wood, green wood, unseasoned wood), inversión que no ha alcanzado su pleno rendimiento (unseasoned investment). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

rått virke (fresh wood, green wood, unseasoned wood), ofärdig investering (unseasoned investment). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

fırınlanmamış, baharatsız, alışmamış (unaccustomed, unused, unused to, unwonted), acemi (apprentice, beginner, bungler, callow, catechumen, clumsy, colt, cub, dabster, green, greenhorn, guiltless, half-baked, inept, inexperienced, inexperienced hand, inexpert, jackaroo, johnny-come-lately, learner, neophyte, new, novice, Prentice, punk, raw, recruit, runnynose, simple, stooge, strange, stranger, sucking, tenderfoot, tiro, trainee, tyro, unbaked, unfledged, unskilled, untrained, unversed, young, young in one's job), çeşnisiz. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

không quen (unconversant, unfamiliar, uninitiated, unwonted), còn tưi, còn chua. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "Unseasoned"

Words rhyming with "unseasoned" (pronounced 'Un*sea"soned'): Parsoned, Unreasoned. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Unseasoned

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-n-n-o-s-s-u"

-2 letters: adenoses, danseuse, doneness, nudeness, seasoned.

-3 letters: adnouns, aeneous, donnees, dueness, duennas, dunness, enneads, nonuses, oneness, soudans, sundaes, uneases.

-4 letters: adnoun, aeneus, anodes, anuses, donees, donnas, donnee, douses, duenna, endues, ennead, ensued, ensues, neoned, nonuse, nouses, onuses, season, sedans, sennas, sensed, sondes, soudan, sounds, soused, suedes, sundae, sunnas, sunned, undoes, undone, unease, unseen, usneae.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-n-n-o-s-s-u"
 

+3 letters: dangerousness, endonucleases.

 

+4 letters: mendaciousness, slanderousness, untowardnesses.

 

+5 letters: adventurousness, dangerousnesses, discountenances, roundheadedness, subordinateness.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Unseasoned


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

55 6E 73 65 61 73 6F 6E 65 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010101 01101110 01110011 01100101 01100001 01110011 01101111 01101110 01100101 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#110 &#115 &#101 &#97 &#115 &#111 &#110 &#101 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 006E 0073 0065 0061 0073 006F 006E 0065 0064

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

55808571678581807170

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Familiar
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions
8. Translations: Modern
9. Rhymes
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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