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UNBUTTONED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does unbuttoned mean?
• UNBUTTONED (adjective)
The adjective UNBUTTONED has 2 senses:
2. not under constraint in action or expression
Familiarity information: UNBUTTONED used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not buttoned
Synonyms:
unbuttoned; unfastened
Context example:
the wind picked up the hem of her unbuttoned coat
Similar:
open-collared (of a shirt; not buttoned at the neck)
Antonym:
buttoned (furnished or closed with buttons or something buttonlike)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Not under constraint in action or expression
Synonyms:
unbuttoned; unlaced
Context example:
unlaced behavior in the neighborhood pub
Similar:
unrestrained (not subject to restraint)
Context examples
Whereupon I first unbuttoned my coat, and pulled it off.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
“Oh, indeed?” answered the little tailor, and unbuttoned his coat, and showed the giant the girdle, “there may you read what kind of a man I am!”
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
A cold drizzle was falling, but he bared his head to it and unbuttoned his vest, swinging along in splendid unconcern.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
He wore rather baggy grey shepherd’s check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, unbuttoned in the front, and a drab waistcoat with a heavy brassy Albert chain, and a square pierced bit of metal dangling down as an ornament.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He was in his library (I mean Doctor Strong was), with his clothes not particularly well brushed, and his hair not particularly well combed; his knee-smalls unbraced; his long black gaiters unbuttoned; and his shoes yawning like two caverns on the hearth-rug.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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