Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not measured; plentiful beyond measure; hence, immense; infinite; boundless.
  • Not subject to or obeying any musical rule of measure, time, or rhythm; irregular; capricious.

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  • adjective Not measured

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective not composed of measured syllables; not metrical
  • adjective impossible to measure

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Examples

  • I had no fewer than sixteen letters about it, all praising it in unmeasured terms.

    New Treasure Seekers Edith 1925

  • There are some beings, whom fate seems to select on whom to pour, in unmeasured portion, the vials of her wrath, and whom she bathes even to the lips in misery.

    III.5 1826

  • Ms. Raczkowski, 74, recalling the unmeasured mountains of ingredients that would grow on the work surface.

    NYT > Home Page By RON LIEBER 2010

  • "She got her board that she used to make spaghetti and noodles, and she would say 'This much flour,'" said Ms. Raczkowski, 74, recalling the unmeasured mountains of ingredients that would grow on the work surface.

    NYT > Home Page 2009

  • "She got her board that she used to make spaghetti and noodles, and she would say 'This much flour,'" said Ms. Raczkowski, 74, recalling the unmeasured mountains of ingredients that would grow on the work surface.

    NYT > Home Page 2009

  • p 324 difference, and to the 'unmeasured' heat which is locally developed in the living vegetable cell by the action of direct light.

    COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814

  • Whether there might be some other unmeasured personal characteristic—perhaps some “niceness gene”—that makes some people both more religious and more generous, or whether religiosity itself actually causes generosity, is a more complicated question to which we return later in this chapter.

    American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

  • A capitalist, such as the late Collis P. Huntington, and his name is Legion, after a long life spent in buying the aid of countless legislatures, will wax virtuously wrathful and condemn in unmeasured terms "the dangerous tendency of crying out to the government for aid" in the way of labor legislation.

    THE SCAB 2010

  • And I agree that using pedophilia as an example was heavy-handed and caused unmeasured reactions because of its inherently inflammatory nature.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Add Bad Ethics to the Problems of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”? 2010

  • And I agree that using pedophilia as an example was heavy-handed and caused unmeasured reactions because of its inherently inflammatory nature.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Add Bad Ethics to the Problems of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”? 2010

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