unfinished

C2+ Topic:Describing Qualities

US /ʌnˈfɪnɪʃt/ UK /ʌnˈfɪnɪʃt/ See IPA manual

Meanings

1

adj
not brought to an end or completed

He left a half-page of unfinished manuscript on the desk.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

1 adj · not brought to an end or... incompleteuncompletedundone unfulfilled partialunaccomplished

Opposites

finished complete completed done

Word family

Related forms finish finishedunfinish

Etymology

From un- ('not') + finished, past participle of finish, from Old French fenir/finir ('to end'), from Latin finire ('to limit, end'), from finis ('end, boundary').

un- Old English finir Old French finire Latin finis Latin

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Describing Qualities Word Formation & Derivatives

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# unfinished

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C2+
**Part of speech:** adj
**IPA (US):** /ʌnˈfɪnɪʃt/
**IPA (UK):** /ʌnˈfɪnɪʃt/

## Meanings
1. not brought to an end or completed

## Examples
- He left a half-page of unfinished manuscript on the desk.

## Synonyms
- incomplete
- uncompleted
- undone
- unfulfilled
- partial
- unaccomplished

## Antonyms
- finished
- complete
- completed
- done

## Related Forms
- finish
- finished
- unfinish

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: un-
- Root: finir
- Root: finire
- Root: finis

## Etymology
From un- ('not') + finished, past participle of finish, from Old French fenir/finir ('to end'), from Latin finire ('to limit, end'), from finis ('end, boundary').

## AI Etymology
Unfinished comes from un- ('not') + finished, past participle of finish, from Old French fenir/finir ('to end'), from Latin finire ('to limit, end'), from finis ('end, boundary'). The historical chain includes Old English un-, Old French finir, Latin finire, and Latin finis. The quoted older senses, "not", "to end", "to limit, end", and "end, boundary", supply the semantic anchors for unfinished. The formation is best read as compound, participial, and borrowed: the word unfinished carries its older form-history into a compact English lexical shape. In present English it is used as a adj, "not brought to an end or completed". Related English forms include finish, finished, and unfinish. The result is a adj whose etymology preserves both the older form and the later English specialization.

## Topics
- Describing Qualities
- Word Formation & Derivatives

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