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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
(of a person) Not redeemed; not granted redemption or salvation; unsaved..
“Asbestos, do you think that those jelly-bag Equalities out on the street there, with their ash-barrel suits, can be compared for one moment with our unredeemed, unreformed, heaven-created, hobble-skirted women of the twentieth century?”
The poet is more in sympathy with the tragic, waiting, unredeemed phase of things than with any transcendental promise.
Its redeemability converts the redemptors into rent-chargers, and, according to an official report quoted in Mr. Dowell’s “History of Taxation in England,” ever since Pitt’s rearrangement the unredeemed amounts have been regarded as a fixed charge on properties, subject to which they have been bought and sold many times over.
Use unredeemed when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Unredeemed means (of a person) Not redeemed; not granted redemption or salvation; unsaved..
Common synonyms include lost, doomed, cursed, damned.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
“Asbestos, do you think that those jelly-bag Equalities out on the street there, with their ash-barrel suits, can be compared for one moment with our unredeemed, unreformed, heaven-created, hobble-skirted women of the twentieth century?”
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