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UNFINISHED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not brought to an end or conclusion
Example:
the building is still unfinished
Classified under:
Similar:
incomplete; uncompleted (not yet finished)
pending (awaiting conclusion or confirmation)
undone (not done)
unended (not ended; lacking an end or conclusion)
Antonym:
finished (ended or brought to an end)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Not brought to the desired final state
Classified under:
Similar:
raw; unsanded (used of wood and furniture)
rough-cut; roughhewn (of stone or timber; shaped roughly without finishing)
undressed (of lumber or stone or hides; not finished or dressed)
unfattened ((of market animals) not optimal for marketing)
unhewn ((of stone especially) not given a finished form by or as if by hewing)
Also:
unpainted (not having a coat of paint or badly in need of a fresh coat)
unprocessed (not altered from an original or natural state)
rough; unsmooth (having or caused by an irregular surface)
Antonym:
finished ((of materials or goods) brought to the desired final state)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Lacking a surface finish such as paint
Example:
unfinished furniture
Synonyms:
bare; unfinished
Classified under:
Similar:
unpainted (not having a coat of paint or badly in need of a fresh coat)
Context examples:
They parted thorough friends, however; she could not be deceived as to the meaning of his countenance, and his unfinished gallantry;—it was all done to assure her that she had fully recovered his good opinion.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
You are so changed, I sometimes think— there Amy stopped, with a half-timid, half-wistful look, more significant than her unfinished speech.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Martin Eden looked with a sigh at his unfinished "Pearl-diving" on Monday morning, and took the car down to Oakland to the high school.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
I had gazed on him while unfinished; he was ugly then, but when those muscles and joints were rendered capable of motion, it became a thing such as even Dante could not have conceived.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
On a table by the window in Buckingham Street, we set out the work Traddles procured for him—which was to make, I forget how many copies of a legal document about some right of way—and on another table we spread the last unfinished original of the great Memorial.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Leaving his sentence unfinished, he seized pen and paper and wrote to Jo, telling her that he could not settle to anything while there was the least hope of her changing her mind.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Poor little girl, it will be a sad going home for her, I'm afraid, and Laurie opened his desk, as if writing to Amy had been the proper conclusion of the sentence left unfinished some weeks before.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
And then came that disconcerting ride. We hadn't reached West Egg village before Gatsby began leaving his elegant sentences unfinished and slapping himself indecisively on the knee of his caramel-colored suit.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
