UNFINISHED | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

Meaning of unfinished in English

(Definition of unfinished from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
(Definition of unfinished from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of unfinished

unfinished
The pellets averaged 2.3 g unfinished and 1.74 g finished.
Even then, the task would always remain unfinished, partial, because changes - even extremely significant changes - can occur both unexpectedly and with incredible speed.
The architectural reveal discloses the eternal game of alterations in an attempt to constantly redefine the implicitly 'unfinished' image of the ever-changing building.
A third cycle is left unfinished when the dotted quaver motion breaks off in the second bar.
I sketch how physical realists about colour might tackle this item of unfinished business.
Unable to draw upon personal past experiences to interpret the present, the task is not remembered and is left unfinished.
They tend to get bored with a task fairly quickly and often abandon a task unfinished, bouncing from one partially begun project to another.
People with dementia find themselves taking longer to complete tasks, and carers commonly find that they have to complete the unfinished tasks.
There is a sense of unfinished work here which a second volume might address.
The text feels unfinished in the absence of answers to questions such as these.
We will be especially interested in the border of such an unfinished diagram, the staircase-like part.
Even then there was not enough money to carry out his plans in full, and the church retains an unfinished appearance to this day.
Examples of such program fragments are programs using built-in predicates, unfinished programs or modules of some bigger programs.
In effect, by working night and day, union and non-union men erected a partly temporary structure within an unfinished permanent one, a monumental laboring feat.
There was unfinished business, however, before this could happen.
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Translations of unfinished

in Chinese (Traditional)
未完成的…
in Chinese (Simplified)
未完成的…
in Spanish
inacabado/ada [masculine-feminine, singular], pendiente [masculine-feminine…
in Portuguese
inacabado/-da, incompleto/-ta…
in more languages
in Turkish
in French
in Japanese
in Dutch
in Czech
in Danish
in Indonesian
in Thai
in Vietnamese
in Polish
in Swedish
in Malay
in German
in Norwegian
in Ukrainian
in Russian
bitmemiş, tamamlanmamış, eksik…
inachevé/-ée, inachevé…
未完成(みかんせい)の…
onvoltooid…
nedokončený…
ufærdigt…
tidak selesai…
ยังไม่เสร็จ…
chưa hoàn thành…
niedokończony…
ofärdigt…
belum siap…
unvollendet…
uferdig, uoppgjort…
незавершений…
незаконченный…
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