Unwork
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Unwork is a verb meaning (transitive) To undo or destroy (work previously done).
Meaning
(transitive) To undo or destroy (work previously done).
More Meanings
- The lack or absence of work; worklessness.
Example Sentences
That comfortable philosophy which modern transcendentalism has but dimly shadowed forth — that poetic agrarianism, which gives all to each and each to all— is the real life of this city of unwork.
Collective bargaining has a crisis of "unwork" — that is, work which Justice Douglas once called "unwanted . . . totally useless." So much "unwork" clutters the table that collective bargaining is no longer able to do what it should: […]
Word Forms
- unworks
- unworking
- unworked
- unwrought
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include raw, gross, crude, rough, unrestore, undestroy.
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