UNSHAVEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unshaven mean? 

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

1. not shaved

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNSHAVEN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not shaved

Synonyms:

unshaved; unshaven

Similar:

barbate; bearded; bewhiskered; whiskered; whiskery (having hair on the cheeks and chin)

bestubbled; stubbled; stubbly (having a short growth of beard)

goateed (having a small pointed chin beard)

mustached; mustachioed (having a moustache)

Antonym:

shaven (having the beard or hair cut off close to the skin)

 Context examples 

My three friends had all lost their hats, and had now bound handkerchiefs round their heads, their clothes hung in ribbons about them, and their unshaven grimy faces were hardly to be recognized.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Again a swift change passed over the heavy, unshaven face.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She had never seen him unshaven, and the three days' growth of beard on his face was repulsive to her.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Further back—all panting together, like the wind in a tree—there stood a group of fierce, wild creatures, bare-armed and bare-legged, gaunt, unshaven, with deep-set murderous eyes and wild beast faces.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Our client smoothed down his unbrushed hair and felt his unshaven chin.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The heavy, white face was seamed with lines of trouble, the hanging pouches under the closed eyes were leaden in colour, the loose mouth drooped dolorously at the corners, the rolling chins were unshaven.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His hand was on my throat and my senses were nearly gone before an unshaven French ouvrier in a blue blouse darted out from a cabaret opposite, with a cudgel in his hand, and struck my assailant a sharp crack over the forearm, which made him leave go his hold.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)