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UNCUT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does uncut mean?
• UNCUT (adjective)
The adjective UNCUT has 7 senses:
2. (used of grass or vegetation) not cut down with a hand implement or machine
3. not shaped by cutting or trimming
4. (of pages of a book) having adjacent leaves still joined at the fore edge
Familiarity information: UNCUT used as an adjective is common.
Dictionary entry details
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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