unshaven

English

Alternative forms

• unshaved

Etymology

From un- +‎ shaven.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʌnˈʃeɪvən/
• Rhymes: -eɪvən

Adjective

unshaven (not comparable)

1. Not having shaved; not shaven; untrimmed.
   • 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 201:

     He was an unshaven little man in a threadbare coat like a gaberdine, with his feet in slippers, and I thought him a harmless fool.

   • 1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter III (Accessory After the Fact), page 382, column 2:

     She was frankly disappointed. For some reason she had expected to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe, polished, pantherish, or a common yegg, a red-eyed, unshaven, burly brute in the rags and tatters of a tramp.

2. (figurative) Unkempt.

   The recruit's face was smooth but for a single almost imperceptible hair protruding from his chin. "Unshaven!" screamed the officer.

Translations

not having shaved

• Belarusian: няго́лены (njahóljeny), нябры́ты (njabrýty)
• Bulgarian: небръснат (nebrǎsnat)
• Danish: ubarberet
• Finnish: ajamaton (fi), ajamatta, sänkinen
• German: unrasiert (de)
• Greek: αξύριστος (el) (axýristos)
• Hungarian: borotválatlan (hu), borostás (hu)
• Latin: intonsus, irrasus
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ubarbert

  Nynorsk: ubarbert

• Polish: nieogolony
• Russian: небри́тый (ru) (nebrítyj)
• Spanish: desafeitado (es)
• Swedish: orakad (sv)
• Ukrainian: него́лений (nehólenyj), небри́тий (nebrýtyj)

unkempt — see unkempt