UNBORN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unborn mean? 

• UNBORN (adjective)
  The adjective UNBORN has 1 sense:

1. not yet brought into existence

  Familiarity information: UNBORN used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNBORN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not yet brought into existence

Context example:

unborn generations

Similar:

unhatched (not yet emerged from an egg)

Antonym:

born (brought into existence)

 Context examples 

If you are pregnant, high blood pressure can cause problems for you and your unborn baby.

(High Blood Pressure in Pregnancy, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

But it is most likely to affect pregnant women and unborn babies, older adults, and people with weak immune systems.

(Listeria Infections, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

It harms unborn babies and destroys families.

(Drug Abuse, NIH: National Institute on Drug Abuse)

A fetus is an unborn baby that develops and grows inside the uterus.

(Fetal, NCI Dictionary)

Genetic and prenatal testing: What happens if you are a carrier of a defect? What if testing shows that your unborn baby has a defect?

(Medical Ethics, NIH)

Obstetricians also care for the fetus (unborn baby), treat problems with pregnancy, and deliver babies.

(Obstetrician, NCI Dictionary)

Or were they appalled by the gigantic load of debt which must bend the backs of many generations unborn?

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Studies have shown that mercury ingested by mothers can also have detrimental effects on unborn children.

(Study finds mercury levels in Arctic soils 5 times higher than temperate regions, National Science Foundation)

We believe—Mas'r Davy, me, and all of us—that you are as innocent of everything that has befell her, as the unborn child.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Children affected by toxins may be due to silicone breast implants and their effects on unborn children and from breastfeeding.

(Child Intoxication With Breast Implant Material Ingredients, Food and Drug Administration)