unmeasured
English
Etymology
Adjective
unmeasured (comparative more unmeasured, superlative most unmeasured)
- Not having been measured.
- 1941, Theodore Roethke, “To My Sister”, in Open House, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, →OCLC; republished in The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke, London: Faber and Faber […], 1968, →OCLC, page 5:
- Recall the gradual dark the snow’s unmeasured fall
The naked fields the cloud’s immaculate folds
- Beyond measure; vast; measureless.
- the unmeasured expanse of the ocean
- 1613, Thomas Heywood, The Brazen Age, […], London: […] Nicholas Okes, […], →OCLC, Act II, signature [C4], verso:
- She [Diana] hath ſent (to plague vs) a huge ſauadge Boare,
Of an vn-meaſured height and magnitude.
[…]
His briſtles poynted like a range of pikes
Ranck't on his backe: his foame ſnowes where he feeds
His tuskes are like the Indian Oliphants.
- Unrestrained; without moderation or deliberation.
- the hasty, unmeasured speech of the defendant