unkindledadj.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈkɪndld/, U.S. /ˌənˈkɪndəld/ Not kindled; not inflamed or ignited. Frequently figurative.
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the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [adjective] > emotionally unaffected
dead1340
unsmittenc1400
unmovedc1480
unkindleda1525
senseless1560
lumpish1585
unfired1590
unaffectedc1595
incapable1601
unsensible1611
insensible1615
untouched1616
impervious1618
unanswering1632
untransported1641
beauty-proof1676
insensate1726
unsusceptible1734
uninfluenced1735
unimbued1813
unsmote1814
unsusceptive1825
unalive1828
echoless1869
non-conducting1871
unsusceptible1872
irresponsive1886
affectless1912
the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > [adjective] > unilluminated or unilluminating > not lighted up
blind1393
firelessc1450
unkindleda1525
unlightened1659
unlit1787
unenlightened1803
a1525 R. Fabyan New Chrons. Eng. & France (Nero C.xi) f. 437 In thys yere began a grudge to growe.., But it was kept vnkyndelyd [1516 vnkyndely] duryng the lyffe of the said duke.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Job xx. 26 An vnkyndled fyre shal consume him.
1576 in R. Edwards Paradyse Daynty Deuises sig. Eiiii Dost thou delight, the unkindled cole to blowe?
1624 G. Markham Honour in his Perfection 33 Reade (O Britaine) to thine vnkindled spirits the Storie of the House of Willoughby.
1661 T. Ross tr. Silius Italicus Second Punick War i. 19 All the Ghosts of Cadmus Race..To the un-kindled Altars brought Supplies Of Bloodlike Flames.
1717 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad III. xi. 239 Th' unkindled Light'ning in his Hand he took.
1742 E. Young Complaint: Night the First 7 They live! they greatly live a life on earth Unkindled, unconceiv'd.
1809 S. T. Coleridge Friend 161 My feelings..and imagination did not remain unkindled in this general conflagration.
1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. xiii. 124 The unkindled lamp stood on the table.
1921 Christian Advocate 19 May 667/1 The life which is left out of the circle of loving interest will be lonely and unkindled.
1979 Numen 26 165 Brilliant lightning alive with fuelless and unkindled flames.
2013 Observer (Gladstone, Queensland) (Nexis) 14 Nov. 10 The feminist fire she hoped to inspire stayed unkindled by the story.
Derivatives
unˈkindledness n. rare (now poetic)
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the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > [noun] > condition of not being lit
unkindledness1869
1869 E. W. Benson Let. 23 Dec. in A. C. Benson Life of E. W. Benson (1899) I. 311 The yellow wax lights on the Altar stood in their irrational, legal, unkindledness.
1999 J. Barr Grace 131 Live in the hope of doves, their sprightly white unkindledness, The Not Yet of wings unflared by flight.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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