Definitions

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  • Not retarded; not delayed, hindered, or impeded.

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  • adjective Not retarded or hindered.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ retarded

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Examples

  • It takes them a little while to find an unretarded headline.

    Obama: "I Strongly Stand By My Plan To End This War" 2009

  • August 2, 2008 at 2:11 pm yew can haz unretarded place tew go?

    Elderly kitteh… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • Yet the good ship ploughed straight on, unretarded by wind or wave, towards the straits of

    Around the World in 80 Days 2003

  • It was a fall of about a kilometer, and in this low gravity it was quite safe to make the drop unretarded.

    Reach For Tomorrow Clarke, Arthur C. 1956

  • It was a fall of about a kilometer, and in this low gravity it was quite safe to make the drop unretarded.

    Reach for Tomorrow Clarke, Arthur C. 1956

  • The time, however, varies greatly, as in some cases the motion ceases almost as soon as the spore is liberated, while in open water, unretarded by the cover glass or other obstacles, its movements have been seen to continue for over two hours.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 460, October 25, 1884 Various

  • Seventeen in years, in the down upon his face and in growth unretarded by any great nervosity of system, his vacuity of face was not that of childhood, but rather as if his light eyes were peering out from some hinterland and wanting so terribly and so dumbly to communicate what they beheld to brain-cells closed against himself.

    Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It Fannie Hurst 1928

  • For then and only then human welfare, unretarded by monstrous misconceptions of human nature, by vicious ethics, vicious economics and vicious politics, will advance peacefully, continuously, and rapidly, under the leadership of human engineering, happily and without fear, in accord with the exponential law — the _natural_ law — of the time-binding energies of Man.

    Manhood of Humanity. Alfred Korzybski 1914

  • The upper container should be wide enough, for a given quantity of coffee, as to allow an unretarded flow, and the more openings the strainer contains the better.

    All About Coffee 1909

  • They could talk together plainly, baldly, a talk ungarnished and unretarded by deferences on the one side and on the other a kindness apt to become excessive in its anxiety not to appear to condescend.

    The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight Elizabeth von Arnim 1903

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