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UNCUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does uncut mean? 

UNCUT (adjective)
  The adjective UNCUT has 7 senses:

1. not trimmedplay

2. (used of grass or vegetation) not cut down with a hand implement or machineplay

3. not shaped by cutting or trimmingplay

4. (of pages of a book) having adjacent leaves still joined at the fore edgeplay

5. not cutplay

6. not cutplay

7. completeplay

  Familiarity information: UNCUT used as an adjective is common.


 Dictionary entry details 


UNCUT (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Not trimmed

Synonyms:

uncut; untrimmed

Context example:

shaggy untrimmed locks

Similar:

unclipped (not clipped)


Sense 2

Meaning:

(used of grass or vegetation) not cut down with a hand implement or machine

Synonyms:

uncut; unmown

Context example:

an unmown lawn

Domain category:

botany; flora; vegetation (all the plant life in a particular region or period)


Sense 3

Meaning:

Not shaped by cutting or trimming

Synonyms:

rough; uncut

Context example:

rough gemstones

Similar:

unsheared ((used especially of fur or wool) not having been sheared)

Antonym:

cut (fashioned or shaped by cutting)


Sense 4

Meaning:

(of pages of a book) having adjacent leaves still joined at the fore edge

Context example:

a book with its leaves still uncut

Antonym:

cut ((of pages of a book) having the folds of the leaves trimmed or slit)


Sense 5

Meaning:

Not cut

Similar:

imperforate (not perforated; having no opening)

unpierced (not pierced)

Antonym:

cut (separated into parts or laid open or penetrated with a sharp edge or instrument)


Sense 6

Meaning:

Not cut

Context example:

glad to get out of the house with my throat uncut

Similar:

uninjured (not injured physically or mentally)


Sense 7

Meaning:

Complete

Synonyms:

full-length; uncut

Context example:

the full-length play

Similar:

unabridged ((used of texts) not shortened)


 Context examples 


It is time some one undertook to rehumanise you, said I, parting his thick and long uncut locks; for I see you are being metamorphosed into a lion, or something of that sort.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)



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