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UNFROZEN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does unfrozen mean?
• UNFROZEN (adjective)
The adjective UNFROZEN has 1 sense:
1. not frozen
Familiarity information: UNFROZEN used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not frozen
Context example:
unfrozen ground
Similar:
ice-free (free of ice and open to travel)
liquescent; melting (becoming liquid)
slushy (being or resembling melting snow)
thawed (no longer frozen)
Also:
liquid; liquified; melted (changed from a solid to a liquid state)
Antonym:
frozen (turned into ice; affected by freezing or by long and severe cold)
Context examples
These unfrozen materials appear to be relics of past surface ecosystems and the findings provide compelling evidence that they now provide deep subsurface habitats for microbial life despite extreme environmental conditions.
(Discovered deep under Antarctic surface: Extensive, salty aquifer and potentially vast microbial habitat, NSF)
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