Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not yet begun.
  • Having had no beginning; eternal.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Not yet begun; also, existing without a beginning.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective That had no beginning; always existent.
  • adjective Which has not yet been begun; unstarted.

Etymologies

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From un- +‎ begun.

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Examples

  • < P class = MsoNormal style = "MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0. 5in" > of understanding like Laska's — < P class = MsoNormal style = "MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 0. 5in" > ended, unbegun

    Comes a Little Dog 2009

  • ME:  Here, I wrote this poem,   "Laps Like a Little Dog" — on a spring day and dog walkers we roll and cherish of understanding like Laska's — ended, unbegun

    Comes a Little Dog 2009

  • The central issue of how intelligence on Iraq was — in this Senator's opinion, was exaggerated by the Bush administration officials, was relegated to that second phase, as yet unbegun...

    Archive 2005-11-01 Glenn Greenwald 2005

  • The central issue of how intelligence on Iraq was — in this Senator's opinion, was exaggerated by the Bush administration officials, was relegated to that second phase, as yet unbegun...

    WMD Accusations & Patriotism: Reply to Jeff Goldstein Glenn Greenwald 2005

  • The central issue of how intelligence on Iraq was, in this senator's opinion, exaggerated by the Bush administration officials was relegated to that second phase, as yet unbegun, of the committee investigation, along with other issues.

    CNN Transcript Jul 9, 2004 2004

  • Thou knowest not how came ye, hence callest thyself unbegotten; certainly knowest not thy beginning, hence callest thyself unbegun.

    Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

  • And then, suddenly, the search was unbegun, and for the first time Tagiri could see the Diko that might have been: smiling, laughing, singing, her face fined with perfect delight at the life the gods had given her.

    Pastwatch, the Redemtion of Christopher Columbus Card, Orson Scott 1996

  • It had already, long before its construction, evoked, and is now increasingly evoking, though its interior ornamentation is as yet unbegun, such interest and comment, in the public press, in technical journals and in magazines, of both the United States and other countries, as to justify the hopes and expectations entertained for it by

    God Passes By 1897-1957 Shoghi Effendi 1927

  • After endless talks it was decided that I should go to Germany for four or five months and thus settle the problem of an unbegun but finishing education.

    Margot Asquith, an Autobiography - Two Volumes in One Margot Asquith 1904

  • In which unbegun love He made us; and in the same love He keepeth us and never suffereth us to be hurt [in manner] by which our bliss might be lost.

    Revelations of Divine Love 1901

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