unmade

adjective

un·​made ˌən-ˈmād How to pronounce unmade (audio)
: not made
an unmade bed

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Guests sat across two floors in different rooms, each in a slight state of disarray — from the office with a game of Solitaire left open on the desktop, to the unmade bed with shirts strewn across it, the space felt like someone’s private residence. Kati Chitrakorn, CNN Money, 27 Sep. 2025 Jason Bateman revealed new information about the unmade Arrested Development movie during an interview with Hot Ones, including the potential casting for the film-within-a-film that never was. Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 22 Sep. 2025 But most organizations also face a long tail of smaller, recurring decisions that often go unmade due to cost or bandwidth constraints. Mikko Karkkainen, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025 The moment reminded me of a plotline in Season 2, in which Miranda went home with a voice actor who was her dream date, only to be repelled by the woman’s cramped space: the cat-litter tray, the unmade bed. Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 15 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for unmade

Word History

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of unmade was in the 14th century

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“Unmade.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unmade. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.

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