单词 | unmanaged |
释义 | unmanagedadj. 1. a. Not properly controlled, directed, or regulated. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of power > [adjective] > not regulated or controlled unordainedc1390 unordinalc1400 unmannered1435 unorderly1566 uncontrolled1594 unmanaged1598 unordinate1610 unregulated?1623 unlicensed1680 unpoliced1753 1598 T. Powell Loues Leprosie sig. Biiiv Like to a fire Ile sit vpon the maynes Of his [sc. Phoebus] vnmanaged Iades, and burne their raynes. 1603 M. Drayton Barrons Wars i. i. 1 A strong nation, whose vnmanag'd might Them from their naturall Soueraigne did diuide. 1672 O. Walker Of Educ. i. ii. 22 Indiscreet, impertinent, unmenaged Servants. 1746 P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Satires ii. ii. 11 Pursue the Chace: th' unmanaged Courser rein. 1835 T. Aird in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 190 The abandoned chariots with unmanaged steeds Roll mad about. 1886 Atchison (Kansas) Daily Globe 9 Feb. (headline) An unmanaged train creates immense havoc at St. Louis. 1969 Jrnl. Financial & Quantitative Anal. 4 464 It can be argued that an unmanaged market portfolio..is not an appropriate standard for comparison with a managed fund. 2006 D. M. Linhorst Empowering People with Severe Mental Illness 102 Some clients were unable to participate in treatment planning because of unmanaged psychiatric symptoms. b. Of language: unguarded, outspoken; lacking restraint or refinement. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > sincerity, freedom from deceit > [adjective] > frank, candid free-hearteda1398 plain-dealing1567 plain-spoken1582 broad1588 free-spoken1606 free1611 unminced1648 unreserved1654 candid1675 above boarda1695 unmanaged1749 unprevaricating?1782 plain-speaking1787 loud-mouthing1788 bluff1808 outspoken1808 unglossing1827 straightforward1829 unwithholdinga1834 open-spoken1852 heart-to-heart1855 blunt-spoken1877 straight1894 1749 W. Warburton Let. to Editor of Lett. Patriotism 2 Your Advertisement is the crudest and most unmanaged attack on the Honour of his deceased Friend. 1771 E. Burke Corr. (1844) I. 323 Your lordship's criminal accusations, so heavy in the matter and unmanaged in the epithets. 1797 E. Burke Three Mem. French Affairs 59 The Prussian ministers in foreign courts, have..talked the most democratick language with regard to France, and in the most unmanaged terms. 1816 S. E. Brydges in Davison's Poet. Rhapsody II. Pref. 5 There is a freedom from expletives, feebleness, and crude unmanaged phrases. 2004 R. Suskind Price of Loyalty v. 172 His ‘unmanaged’ comments during the first winter and spring's tax battle..had placed him on the wrong side of Karl Rove. 2. Formerly: (of land) not worked or cultivated. Later: (of the environment, an area, forest, nature reserve, etc.) left wild or in a natural state; not maintained or controlled. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > wild or uncultivated land > [adjective] westeeOE wildc893 wastyc1230 wastec1290 untilled1297 void1398 wilsomea1400 desolate1413 wastablea1450 unlaboured1474 untilthed1495 spare1508 unmanured1541 unculted1548 uncultured1555 Hyrcan1567 untoiled1578 manureless1595 griggy1597 Wealdish1598 Hyrcanian1600 unwrought1600 wealy1601 uncultived1605 incult1624 unmanaged1634 incultivateda1657 uncultivate1659 uncultivated1684 unreclaimed1753 wildered1810 irreclaimed1814 natural1827 feral1882 1634 W. Wood New Englands Prospect i. xi. 47 The folly..of such as would venture into so rude and unmanaged a countrey, without..much provisions. a1679 M. Poole Annot. Holy Bible (1683) I. sig. 5K3/2 Unmanaged and therefore in a great measure unfruitful Land. 1755 Mem. Life & Adventures Sobrina xvi. 236 The abundant hardships attendant on the first cultivaters of unmanaged soil. 1818 A. Seybert Statist. Ann. U.S.A. i. 37 Industry would be abundantly rewarded for the labour and the expense of renovating the unmanaged and impoverished soil. 1891 Publ. Amer. Econ. Assoc. 6 158 Such management could hardly become profitable as long as competition with the accumulated product of the unmanaged timberlands had to be met. 1941 Jrnl. Wildlife Managem. 5 161 A legal kill of 101 male ring-necks per square mile probably cannot be duplicated in many unmanaged areas east of the Mississippi. 2002 Northern Woodlands Spring 34/3 The reserve will be ‘an island of unmanaged land in a sea of managed lands’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1598 |
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