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Definition: Unimproved |
UnimprovedAdjective1. Not made more desirable or valuable or profitable; especially not made ready for use or marketing; "taxes on unimproved land are low"; "unimproved dirt roads". 2. (of land) not cleared of trees and brush; in the wild or natural state; "a farm with 50 acres of unimproved and 68 acres of improved land"; "unimproved woodlands". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "unimproved" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1601. (references) |
| Antonym: improved (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Deterioration | Adjective: unimproved; (improve; ); deteriorated; Verb: altered, altered for the worse; injured; Verb: sprung; withering, spoiling; Verb: on the wane, on the decline; tabid; degenerate; marescent; worse; the worse for, all the worse for; out of repair, out of tune; imperfect; the worse for wear; battered; weathered, weather-beaten; stale, passe, shaken, dilapidated, frayed, faded, wilted, shabby, secondhand, threadbare; worn, worn to a thread, worn to a shadow, worn to the stump, worn to rags; reduced, reduced to a skeleton; far gone; tacky. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Unimproved |
| Specialty definitions using "unimproved": APPRAISER, REAL ESTATE ♦ BUILDING CONSULTANT. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Wilson, Md. A farm truck mired in the mud on an unimproved road. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Henry David Thoreau | Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Haiti | Haiti's transportation infrastructure consists of 4,050 km of roads (2,515 mi.), 950 km of which are paved, 950 km otherwise improved and 2,150 km unimproved. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Washington | 1789-1797 | Posterity may have cause to regret if from any motive intervals of tranquility are left unimproved for accelerating this valuable end. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | To this subject I feel that I can not too earnestly invite the special attention of Congress, without the exercise of whose authority the opportunity to accomplish so much public good must pass unimproved. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Unimproved" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unimproved" is used about 22 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% | 22 | 74,468 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "unimproved": leave smth. unimproved ♦ unimproved grazing ♦ unimproved land tax. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
land loan unimproved | 5 |
loan property unimproved | 3 |
contract property unimproved | 2 |
unimproved land | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "unimproved"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i papërmirësuar, i papërdorshëm (impracticable, rusty, unfit, unusable), i pandrequr (unreclaimed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | غير محسن, غير مستفاد منه, غير مزروع (uncultivated). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | неусвоен (indigested, undigested, unlearnt), неоползотворен, неподобрен. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 未经"善. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | nezlepšený. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | skat på udyrket jord (idle land tax, unimproved land tax), skat på brakjord (idle land tax, unimproved land tax), raajordsvaerdi (value of undeveloped land, value of unimproved land), raajord (undeveloped land, unimproved land), graesning paa udyrket areal (rough grazing, unimproved grazing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | weidegrond (meadow), grondbelasting op onbeplante gronden (idle land tax, unimproved land tax). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | jalostumaton (unrefined). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | non amélioré, inutilisé (unused), inexploité (unexploited, untapped), inchangé (unchanged). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | unverändert schlecht, unbebaut (uncultivated, undeveloped, untilled, vacant), nicht verbessert, nicht modernisiert, nicht kultiviert, nicht besser. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αβελτίωτοσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | tapasztalatlan (callow, freshwater, incognizant, inexperienced, unacquainted, unexperienced, unfledged, unpractised, unseasoned, verdant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | pascolo estensivo (rough grazing, unimproved grazing), imposta sui terreni improduttivi (idle land tax, unimproved land tax). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | improvedunay não melhorado, não corrigido (unreclaimed), não aperfeiçoado (coarse), desaproveitado. (various references) необработанный (coarse, crude, green, raw, rude, undeveloped, undressed, unrefined, untilled), неисправленный (uncorrected, unreclaimed). (various references) neobrađen (crude, fallow, rude, uncultivated, uncultured), neiskorišćen (untapped, unused, unutilized). (various references) valor del suelo sin construir (value of undeveloped land, value of unimproved land), suelo sin construir (undeveloped land, unimproved land), pastizal basto (rough grazing, unimproved grazing), impuesto sobre las tierras improductivas (idle land tax, unimproved land tax). (various references) naturbetesmark (rough grazing, unimproved grazing). (various references) sürülmemiş, gelişmemiş (backward, embryonic, immature, inchoate, puny, underdeveloped, undeveloped), düzelmemiş (unreformed, unregenerate). (various references) không cải tiến. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | incorrectus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "unimproved" (pronounced u'ni'mpruw"vd) |
| 7 | -i' m p r uw" v d | improved. |
| 5 | -p r uw" v d | approved, disapproved, disproved, proved, unapproved, unproved. |
| 3 | -uw" v d | moved, removed, unmoved. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-i-m-n-o-p-r-u-v" | |
-2 letters: improved, inpoured, unprimed, unproved. | |
-3 letters: dourine, dumpier, imponed, impound, improve, minored, mourned, neuroid, pounder, promine, provide, umpired, unmoved, unrimed, unroped. | |
-4 letters: devoir, devour, dinero, diuron, domine, dopier, dormie, dormin, driven, dumper, durion, emodin, enduro, impend, impone, improv, impure, inpour, inured, ironed, merino, minder, modern, monied, mopier, murein, murine, nevoid, nimrod, normed, opined, orpine. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 6E 69 6D 70 72 6F 76 65 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -. .. -- .--. .-. --- ...- . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01101110 01101001 01101101 01110000 01110010 01101111 01110110 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U n i m p r o v e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 006E 0069 006D 0070 0072 006F 0076 0065 0064 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)55807579828481887170 |
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