Definitions

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  • adjective Not prefixed; without a prefix.

Etymologies

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un- +‎ prefixed

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Examples

  • So, the mind reasoning that the final destination of something is its unprefixed form, complains that something is "still unpacked" when it means to say it is "still ununpacked."

    languagehat.com: STILL UNPACKED. 2005

  • Maybe the confusion comes because often, the "un" prefix is attached to words that precede the, er, unprefixed form.

    languagehat.com: STILL UNPACKED. 2005

  • Tims's ceremonious way of speaking of her betrothed, whom she never mentioned except as Mr. Fitzalan, made Ian reflect with sad humor on the number of offensively familiar forms of address which he himself had endured from her, and on the melancholy certainty that she had never spoken of him in his absence by any name more respectful than the plain unprefixed "Stewart."

    The Invader A Novel

  • Since it is doing this it also enables links for unprefixed href attributes, in anticipation of MathML3's href attribute for linking.

    Planet XML 2009

  • Read the post and the proposal again.) "Treating" and "remdiation" (the bio, the phyto and the unprefixed kinds) are used here synonomously.

    Treating Cancer with Landscape Architecture 2008

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