unmade

un- +‎ made

• Rhymes: -eɪd

unmade (comparative more unmade, superlative most unmade)

1. not (yet) made
2. existing without having been made
3. (UK, of a road) Without a hard, smooth, permanent surface.

   Related terms: dirt road

   • 1980, Blackwood's Magazine, page 505:

     [E]ven when it turned off the unmade road and went steeply upwards along an even more unmade track, I was still exhilarated […].

   • 2021 September 22, Industry Insider, “A new way of thinking”, in RAIL, number 940, page 92:

     It was an unexpected benefit to early rail investors that passengers had an appetite for travel, which up to then had been a tortuous experience on largely unmade roads and involving stays at coaching inns that provided variable amenities.

• 1965, Frederic Morton, The Schatten Affair, page 180:

  On the most unmade bed imaginable sat two older Jewish men, both with black coats folded across their knees, bent close to each other […].

• 2005, Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, Human Creation Between Reality and Illusion, page 162:

  Even in the most unmade forms of art. one could discern an epistemology of art that is assumed on the same productivist parameters.

unmade

1. simple past and past participle of unmake

• “unmade”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.