unshaven

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Scrabble points
14
Words With Friends
17
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/ʌnˈʃeɪvən/

Definition of unshaven

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (not-comparable)Not having shaved; not shaven; untrimmed.
    “He was an unshaven little man in a threadbare coat like a gaberdine, with his feet in slippers, and I thought him a harmless fool.”
    “She was frankly disappointed. For some reason she had expected to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe, polished, pantherish, or a common yegg, a red-eyed, unshaven, burly brute in the rags and tatters of a tramp.”
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adj

  1. (not-comparable)Not having shaved; not shaven; untrimmed.
    “He was an unshaven little man in a threadbare coat like a gaberdine, with his feet in slippers, and I thought him a harmless fool.”
    “She was frankly disappointed. For some reason she had expected to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe, polished, pantherish, or a common yegg, a red-eyed, unshaven, burly brute in the rags and tatters of a tramp.”
  2. (figuratively, not-comparable)Unkempt.
    “The recruit's face was smooth but for a single almost imperceptible hair protruding from his chin. "Unshaven!" screamed the officer.”

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Etymology

From un- + shaven.

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