Unsifted
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Unsifted is an adjective meaning Not having been sifted.
Meaning
Not having been sifted.
More Meanings
- (archaic, figurative) Inexperienced; untried, unscrutinized.
Example Sentences
[…] You speak like a green girl, Unsifted in such perilous circumstance.
If you bake with unsifted flour you don't know how much you are using because it might be packed down or very fluffy.
1765, George Colman, The Comedies of Terence, Translated into Familiar Blank Verse, London: T. Becket & P. A. De Hondt, 2nd edition, 1768, Volume I, Preface, p. xxxii, But each man’s understanding, such as it is, must be his guide; and he, who has not courage to make a free use of it, but obtrudes the opinions of others, unsifted and unexamined, on his readers, betrays more want of respect for their understanding, than diffidence of his own.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include thistles, unsieved, unbolted, nonsorted, unsedimented, unscrutinized.
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