Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not invented; not found out.

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  • adjective Not invented.

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Examples

  • Nothing can be 'uninvented' and it sure as hell won't stop people from trying to redevelop the weapons even if you could agree to complete disarmament.

    digg.com: Stories / Popular 2009

  • Nothing can be 'uninvented' and it sure as hell won't stop people from trying to redevelop the weapons even if you could agree to complete disarmament.

    Original Signal - Transmitting Digg 2009

  • Maybe it was the age difference between us that made me think he felt something else at last light, a persistent disquiet, uninvented.

    Excerpt: Point Omega by Don DeLillo 2010

  • There will always be criminals and guns cannot be “uninvented” but really, 12 years.

    Welcome To OUR World. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009

  • But what do you expect the Liberal vision is for the future in which transportation will run on that as-yet uninvented magical fuel that the carbon tax is supposed to divert us to use?

    2008 September 10 « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2008

  • They created a level of hysteria and traffic that finished off the Union strategy and which also, as if it had been calculated to do so, spread word of the terrible defeat faster than the uninvented telephone.

    Louisa May Alcott Susan Cheever 2010

  • "Biological weapons and chemical weapons also cannot be uninvented but they are now forbidden."

    Evelyn Leopold: NPT:How to Count the Bombs Until There Are None 2010

  • The weapons that create the threat of annihilation cannot be uninvented.

    A Near Miss 2008

  • However, time travel, particularly for murderous robots, remains uninvented (as far as we know).

    How Hollywood has predicted the future 2010

  • And Boyd was certainly right in this episode: if such technology is ever developed it can't be uninvented, and it will be used.

    Dollhouse at the End of the World James F. McGrath 2010

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