Unworked

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Yet to be altered, carved, milled, worked, or otherwise changed from its natural or crude state.

    "For years there stood in the sculptor's studio a two-ton block of unworked Italian marble."

  2. 2
    Describing an unaltered material found associated with human tool-making or other cultural activity.

    "Dozens of unworked obsidian cobbles were found buried with the deceased."

Synonyms

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Example

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"For years there stood in the sculptor's studio a two-ton block of unworked Italian marble."

Etymology

From Middle English unwerked, unwerched, equivalent to un- + worked. Doublet of unwrought.

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