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English
Etymology
From un- + measured.
Adjective
unmeasured (comparative more unmeasured, superlative most unmeasured)
- Not having been measured.
1941, Theodore Roethke, “To My Sister”, in Open House; republished in The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke, 1975, →ISBN, 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 , 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 ſnovves vvhere he feeds / His tuskes are like the Indian Oliphants.
- Unrestrained; without moderation or deliberation.
the hasty, unmeasured speech of the defendant
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