[1575–85; un-1 + wish + -ed2]This word is first recorded in the period 1575–85. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: analysis, cusp, formula, orthodox, recallun- is a prefix meaning “not,” freely used as an English formative, giving negative oropposite force in adjectives and their derivative adverbs and nouns (unfair; unfairly; unfairness; unfelt; unseen; unfitting; unformed; unheard-of; un-get-at-able), and less freely used in certain other nouns (unrest; unemployment); -ed is a suffix forming the past participle of weak verbs (he had crossed the river), and of participial adjectives indicating a condition or quality resulting fromthe action of the verb (inflated balloons). Other words that use the affix -ed include: classified, limited, registered, sheltered, truncated
Examples of 'unwished' in a sentence
unwished
But that couldn't be, any more than a written thing could be unwritten, or a wished-for thing unwished.
Clive Barker THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW (2001)
An unwished for variation in the bean curd?
Times, Sunday Times (2018)
But then that's what commissioning editors are for: to surprise us with the unlikely and the unwished.