unseasonedadj.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈsiːznd/, U.S. /ˌənˈsiz(ə)nd/ 1.
a. Not made palatable by seasoning.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > seasoning > [adjective] > not seasoned or spiced
unseasoned1582
unspiced1655
unconditeda1667
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iv. 75 Caucasus haggish Bred the, with a tigers soure milck vnseasoned.
1601 Song of Mary D j b If it may be, let this vnseasoned cup Of sorrow passe.
1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Incondite uiuande, vnseasoned meates.
b. Not appreciative of dainties.
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the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > [adjective] > Philistine
unseasoned1598
Gothish1602
Gothic1695
Vandal1752
beauty-proof1753
bourgeois1764
Philistine1831
palateless1860
philistinic1869
Philistinish1871
Babbitty1925
1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie To Perusers sig. B4 For whose vnseasond pallate I wrote the first Satyre in some places too obscure.
2.
a. Not matured by growth or time. Also in figurative context.
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the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > unpreparedness > [adjective] > unready or immature
green?a1300
rawa1398
indigest1398
unmatured?a1425
unripea1500
unseasonable1515
unbuilded1519
inchoate1534
unripened1561
uncivil1572
unmellowed1573
unmanured1577
unblown1587
ungrown1593
unpolished1594
rudimental1597
rude1600
unsalted1602
unseasoned1602
unlicked1612
embryon1613
unbakeda1616
unbloweda1616
unfledged1615
unmellow1615
sappya1627
embryous1628
unconcocteda1631
unkneaded1633
immature1635
sucking1648
vacuous1651
embryo1659
unelaborate1663
unmature1673
unformed1689
undeveloped1736
infantile1772
uncultivated1796
unelaborated1817
fetal1820
embryotic1823
embryonic1825
embryonary1833
sophomoric1837
seedling1843
rudimentary1851
unwrought1869
juvenescent1875
vealy1890
under-developed1892
1602 B. Jonson Poetaster v. iii. sig. K4v We haue no vacant Eare, now, to receiue The vnseasond fruits of his officious tongue. View more context for this quotation
a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 34 The best stricles..are made of froughy, unseasoned oake.
1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 21 If they be made of unseason'd Stuff,..as the Stuff dries it shrinks.
1831 On Planting (Libr. Useful Knowl.) vi. 74 Comparative trials of seasoned and unseasoned wood in the same building.
1833 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Cottage Archit. §243 Unseasoned timber, or other materials.
b. Not habituated by time or experience.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > unaccustomedness or state of disuse > [adjective] > not used or accustomed
unused1297
insolent?a1505
uncustomed?1520
unwont1552
unured1566
unwonteda1586
unhardened1600
unseasoned1608
unaccustomed1611
unconversanta1674
uninureda1708
unhackneyed1760
unfamiliarized1775
unhabituated1796
unhabituate1815
1608 J. Day Law-trickes sig. E4 These words..Are but like Ignes fatui to delude, Greene and vnseason'd wits.
1614 S. Latham Falconry i. ix. 33 These hawkes being vnseasoned in their bodies.
a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) i. i. 68 'Tis an vnseason'd Courtier, good my Lord Aduise him. View more context for this quotation
a1627 H. Shirley Martyr'd Souldier (1638) i. ii Your unseason'd valour Had thrice ingag'd our fortunes and our men Beyond recovery.
1665 E. Phillips in Baker's Chron. Kings of Eng. (new ed.) 647 The unseason'd Orkney Men immediatly yielded themselves.
1770 P. Pittman Present State European Settlem. Missisippi p. viii The twenty-first regiment..being..unseasoned to such a climate, suffered almost as much.
1840 E. E. Napier Scenes & Sports Foreign Lands II. App. 243 The exposure of his unseasoned person alternately to night damps and the burning rays of the sun.
1856 C. Dickens Little Dorrit (1857) i. xxxii. 281 The depressed unseasoned prisoner.
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the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > [adjective]
untimec1000
untidya1225
untimesa1300
out of season1377
undue1398
out of time1483
untimeousa1500
importunate1529
inopportune1533
importunea1535
unconvenable1542
intempestive1548
unseasonable1561
untimeable1570
out-of-season1574
untimely1581
unseasoned1589
baldc1590
timeless1590
melancounterous?1602
untimelessa1607
unopportune1653
mistimelyc1680
mistimed1687
ill-timed1692
ill-seasoned1843
unchancy1860
intempestuous1885
unseasonal1935
1589 T. Cooper Admon. People of Eng. 21 Their virulent and unseasoned speeches.
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 (2nd issue) iii. i. 100 These vnseasoned howers perforce must adde Vnto your sicknesse. View more context for this quotation
1615 R. Brathwait Loves Labyrinth 44 in Strappado Each..tun'd their odes with that vnseasoned time.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) ii. ii. 163 The which hath something emboldned me to this vnseason'd intrusion. View more context for this quotation
1796 F. Burney Camilla I. ii. iv. 202 Camilla looked hastily away, and her whole set, abashed by so unseasoned an inquiry, cast down their eyes.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > insalubrity > [adjective]
evilc1000
unsete1387
pestilenta1398
pestilentiala1398
unhealfulc1400
unthendec1425
unsetyc1440
unwholesomec1455
ill1488
pestifere1490
contagious1495
infectious1534
pestiferous1538
unhealthsome1544
unkindlyc1570
deletery1576
deleterious1587
bad1589
unhealthful1598
unsound1598
unhealthy1600
sickly1604
deleterial1621
tetrous1637
insalubrious1638
unseasoned1638
cankered1645
healthless1650
insalutary1694
maliferous1727
insanous1742
unsalubrious1781
unsanitary1872
insanitary1874
devitalizing1875
antihygienic1876
unhygienic1883
unhealthy-looking1890
1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 213 A great and lovely Citie,..over-topt by no hill, unseasoned by no marishes.
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