UNWORKED Synonyms: 90 Similar and Opposite Words

unworked

adjective

Definition of unworked

as in unfinished

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as in untreated

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Recent Examples of unworked It's topped with natural, unworked stones collected from around the museum area. — New Atlas, 28 Aug. 2026 While the one-page affidavit doesn’t disclose the amount Jones allegedly billed, Seminole County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Bob Kealing told the Orlando Sentinel the deputy is accused of billing the agency about $1,800 in unworked overtime. — Cristóbal Reyes, The Orlando Sentinel, 16 Apr. 2026 The memo does not tabulate the amount of unworked overtime hours Caloia is accused of logging on her timesheet. — Tony Plohetski, Austin American Statesman, 6 Feb. 2026 Fragments of whale bones appeared at these inland sites in small and unworked pieces. — Stephanie Edwards, Discover Magazine, 28 May 2025 During the summer solstice, the sun rises above the Heel Stone, a large, unworked sarsen standing about 250 feet from the center of the monument’s stone circle. — Hannah Edgar, ARTnews.com, 26 Feb. 2025 These fortresses tended to take advantage of features like gorges and hilltops for natural defenses, supplementing those with walls of unworked boulders stacked without mortar. — Ars Technica, 9 Jan. 2025 Advertisement The overtime probe that led to Peniche’s phone being searched first became public in 2019, when CHP Southern Division Chief Mark Garrett held a press conference alleging dozens of officers had bilked the agency for unworked hours. — Caroline Petrow-Cohen, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2024 Police have launched an international hunt for the thieves and their loot, consisting of 483 Celtic coins and a lump of unworked gold that were discovered during an archeological dig near the present-day town of Manching in 1999. — Frank Jordans, USA TODAY, 26 Nov. 2022

Recent Examples of Synonyms for unworked

Adjective

Mamadou Wadji, 37, heads a shoemakers’ cooperative whose members were moved from a busy market beside Iba Mar Diop stadium to an unfinished school building in an out-of-the-way location so the stadium could be expanded for the Games.

— ABC News, ABC News, 2 Nov. 2026
For now, the evolutionary history of dreaming remains tantalizingly unfinished.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of unfinished

Adjective

The most extreme is the outdoor pool with Lucerne’s lake water (untreated), a truly icy experience undertaken naked.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Nov. 2026
It’s not generally recommended to mix old, stale gasoline with fresh fuel, especially if the old gas has been sitting untreated for several months.

— Timothy Dale, The Spruce, 31 Oct. 2026

Definition of untreated

Adjective

Celebrated as masterpieces today, at the time they were regarded as the unpolished works of a depressed, crazy man and commercially worthless.

— Joan Martelli, Time, 17 Oct. 2026
One young fashion photographer who made a name for himself at indie mags like i-D with his unpolished images of a teenage Kate Moss, was Juergen Teller.

— Sheena McKenzie, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of unpolished

Adjective

More resource-rich countries are restricting exports of unprocessed minerals and requiring foreign partners to refine them locally.

— Anniek Bao, CNBC, 4 Nov. 2026
In August, specialists at Washington Dulles International Airport seized about 440 pounds of unprocessed cotton from a family arriving from Afghanistan.

— Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of unprocessed

Adjective

Ending racial preferences in admissions leaves substantial discrimination untouched if universities distribute other opportunities by race.

— Ilya Shapiro, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2026
Texas ended special last meals in 2011, after white supremacist Lawrence Russell Brewer ordered a feast and left it untouched.

— Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 7 Nov. 2026

Definition of untouched

Adjective

The studio fussiness is why Fagen’s music would later go in and out of style—when raw sounds are in fashion, people tend to point out where his band’s singles landed on the Easy Listening charts.

— Mark Richardson, Pitchfork, 8 Nov. 2026
Ryan Conwell is as raw as would be expected with a second-round rookie.

— Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 7 Nov. 2026