Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.

Definition: Unhewn |
UnhewnAdjective1. (of stone especially) not given a finished form by or as if by hewing; "a house of unhewn gray stone roughly cemented together". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "unhewn" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1651. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Amorphism | Adjective: shapeless, amorphous, formless; unformed, unhewn, unfashioned, unshaped, unshapen; rough, rude, Gothic, barbarous, rugged. |
Nonpreparation | Adjective: unprepared; without preparation; incomplete; rudimental, embryonic, abortive; immature, unripe, kachcha, raw, green, crude; coarse; rough cast, rough hewn; in the rough; unhewn, unformed, unfashioned, unwrought, unlabored, unblown, uncooked, unboiled, unconcocted, unpolished. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Unhewn |
| Specialty definitions using "unhewn": coniferous log ♦ tropical log. (references) |
| "Unhewn" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unhewn" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 4 | 175,879 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "unhewn": unhewn stone. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "unhewn"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i palëmuar (home-bred, homespun, rough, rude, shaggy, unequal, unmounted), i pagdhendur (artless, bearish, crass, Hick, hillbilly, loutish, lowlife, oafish, raffish, rank, rough, uncouth). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | неотсечен, неодялан (undressed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | roh (barbarous, brute, crude, earthy, low-bred, ordinary, rare, raw, rough, roughly, ruffianly, uncooked, undressed, unrefined, untreated, unwrought). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | 'ויל (parchment, pergament, scroll, unhewn stone). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | faragatlan (boorish, churlish, earthy, hairy-heeled, homespun, ill bred, loutish, rough-hewn, rude, rugged, tacky, uncouth, unframed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | anghiarit (uncut). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ewnunhay tosco (bumbling, cloddish, clumsy, crude, gross, harsh, rugged, uncouth), por trabalhar, em bruto (gross, uncut, unrefined). (various references) неотделанный (coarse, incondite). (various references) neotesan (bluff, boorish, hardfisted, ill mannered, impolite, inurbane, low-browed, mucker, uncouth), neisečen. (various references) không gọt giũa. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-h-n-n-u-w" | |
-2 letters: hewn, when. | |
-3 letters: hen, hew, hue, hun, new, nun, wen. | |
-4 letters: eh, en, he, ne, nu, uh, un, we. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-h-n-n-u-w" | |
+3 letters: newshound. | |
+4 letters: newshounds. | |
+5 letters: unweighting, unwreathing. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 6E 68 65 77 6E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
|
| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
|
| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
|
| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
|
Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -. .... . .--. -. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
|
Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01101110 01101000 01100101 01110111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U n h e w n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 006E 0068 0065 0077 006E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
|
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)558074718980 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage Frequency 4. Expressions | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.