unstirred

English

Etymology 1

un- +‎ stirred

Adjective

unstirred (comparative more unstirred, superlative most unstirred)

  1. That has not been mixed by stirring.
  2. Not stirred or emotionally excited.
    • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VIII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 74:
      Who, in after years, could supply a mother's place to the bereaved child, in whom affection's sweetest fountain must remain for ever unstirred?
    • 1853, Charlotte Brontë, Villette:
      Inadventurous, unstirred by impulses of practical ambition, I was capable of sitting twenty years teaching infants the hornbook, turning silk dresses and making children's frocks.

Verb

unstirred

  1. simple past and past participle of unstir

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