Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not plastic; not readily molded. Not suitable for plastic representation; unsculptural.

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Examples

  • Encounter was thus a treat, with its unplastic flatware, solid plates, and drinking water freely supplied.

    Greetings from Airworld! 2006

  • Encounter was thus a treat, with its unplastic flatware, solid plates, and drinking water freely supplied.

    Greetings from Airworld! 2006

  • Four-color Plasticman goes oozing out of a keyhole, around a corner and up through piping that leads to a sink in the mad Nazi scientist's lab, out of whose faucet Plas's head now, blank carapaced eyes and unplastic jaw, is just emerging.

    Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

  • Certainly those years were like the married years of many another young woman of that unplastic day.

    Gigolo Edna Ferber 1926

  • His unplastic nature would one day be his chief bulwark; as now, it was his chief stumbling block.

    The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest 1921

  • His activities where He is working in the unplastic matter of the physical plane; and so, when He undertakes a work like this, He generates causes whose effects He cannot thoroughly calculate, He takes the risk which surrounds every great undertaking, He submits

    London Lectures of 1907 Annie Wood Besant 1890

  • Yet their eyes are much keener than ours, for they see through the surface of nature and perceive its symbolism; they see the living reality, of which nature is the veil, and are continually at fault because this veil is not, after all, the reality, -- because it is fixed and unplastic.

    Confessions and Criticisms Julian Hawthorne 1890

  • There was a feeling of awe upon her which made her mute, and stern, and altogether unplastic in the hands of her friends.

    Ralph the Heir Anthony Trollope 1848

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