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unbound

un·bound
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [uhn-bound]
    • /ʌnˈbaʊnd/
    • /ʌnˈbaɪnd/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [uhn-bound]
    • /ʌnˈbaʊnd/

Definitions of unbound word

  • verb unbound simple past tense and past participle of unbind. 1
  • adjective unbound not bound, as a book. 1
  • adjective unbound free; not attached, as by a chemical bond: unbound electrons. 1
  • verb with object unbound to release from bonds or restraint, as a prisoner; free. 1
  • verb with object unbound to unfasten or loose, as a bond or tie. 1
  • noun unbound Unbound is the past tense and past participle of unbind. 0

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Origin of unbound

First appearance:

before 900
One of the 4% oldest English words
before 900; (adj.) Middle English unbounde, unbunden, Old English unbunden; see un-1, bound1

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Parts of speech for Unbound

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation

unbound popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 80% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
This word is included in each student's vocabulary. Most likely there is at least one movie with this word in the title.

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Synonyms for unbound

adj unbound

  • at large — You use at large to indicate that you are talking in a general way about most of the people mentioned.
  • at liberty — free, unoccupied, or unrestricted
  • day and night — If something happens day and night or night and day, it happens all the time without stopping.
  • free as a bird — really free
  • interminable — incapable of being terminated; unending: an interminable job.

adjective unbound

  • free — enjoying personal rights or liberty, as a person who is not in slavery: a land of free people.
  • freed — enjoying personal rights or liberty, as a person who is not in slavery: a land of free people.
  • interminate — Without end or limit; boundless; infinite.
  • longwinded — Alternative spelling of long-winded.
  • neverending — having or likely to have no end: never-ending worry.

verb unbound

  • loosed — free or released from fastening or attachment: a loose end.

Antonyms for unbound

verb unbound

  • corked — (of a wine) tainted through having a cork containing excess tannin
  • corking — excellent
  • delimitate — delimit.
  • hem in — to fold back and sew down the edge of (cloth, a garment, etc.); form an edge or border on or around.
  • limit — the final, utmost, or furthest boundary or point as to extent, amount, continuance, procedure, etc.: the limit of his experience; the limit of vision.

Top questions with unbound

  • what does unbound mean?
  • doctor who unbound?
  • what is an unbound report?
  • what is an unbound book?
  • what is a unbound report?

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