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English
Etymology
From un- + collected.
Adjective
uncollected (comparative more uncollected, superlative most uncollected)
- (not comparable) Not collected or gathered.
The barman glanced around in search of uncollected glasses.
2009 July 12, Christopher Caldwell, “Can David Cameron Redefine Britain’s Tory Party?”, in The New York Times:That trial, which began the same week as the elections that brought Margaret Thatcher to power, remains a symbol, to a certain sort of Englishman, of the societywide breakdown of the 1970s, which was a decade of currency devaluations, crippling strikes, uncollected garbage and shortened workweeks.
- Absent in mind; not having one's thoughts collected.
- Synonyms: uncomposed, untogether
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