unmeasured

adjective

un·​mea·​sured ˌən-ˈme-zhərd 

-ˈmā-

: not measured: such as

a

: not ascertained in quantity, mass, extent, or degree

… to a vast and as yet unexplored and unmeasured tract of Eastern lands.

—Nathaniel Hawthorne

b

: not limited or restrained

unmeasured scorn

One began to dream the sensation of wielding unmeasured power.

—Henry Adams

Examples of unmeasured in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Gordon’s treatment of this topic is a useful rebuttal to the common claim that wage stagnation is an illusion because unmeasured benefits on the job have improved so much. —Tyler Cowen, Foreign Affairs, 15 Feb. 2016

But undoing the observation and the observer’s recollection of it is the only way to take the system back to its initial conditions and thereby retrieve Charlie’s qubit in its original, unmeasured state. —Anil Ananthaswamy, Scientific American, 25 June 2024

Dems prosecuted the January Sixth demonstrators with unmeasured and unprecedented vindictiveness. —Ron Hart, Orange County Register, 1 Sep. 2022

But the depth of any new relationships forged goes unmeasured in a film that prefers to focus exclusively on our antic, personable protagonist’s efforts to go home and/or stay put. —Dennis Harvey, Variety, 14 Nov. 2023

Word History

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined above