unfinished

[uhn-fin-isht] / ʌnˈfɪn ɪʃt /

ADJECTIVE

not completed

Synonyms

STRONGEST

bare incomplete unadorned undeveloped unfulfilled

WEAK

amateurish crude cut short dabbling defective deficient dilettante faulty formless found wanting fragmentary half-baked half-done immature imperfect in the making in the rough lacking natural not done plain raw rough roughhewn shapeless sketchy tentative unaccomplished unassembled uncompleted unconcluded under construction undone unexecuted unfashioned unperfected unpolished unrefined wanting

Antonyms

WEAK

completed finished polished refined whole

Example Sentences

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Still, there is the unfinished business of getting over the Darién debacle and regaining Scotland’s financial pride.

From The Wall Street Journal

At the brightly lit factory in the southern industrial heartland of Guangzhou, logistics robots zip around ferrying unfinished parts.

From Barron's

"You have to come up with things within your means and possibilities, even in terms of space, to try to survive," he told AFP, covered in construction dust amid the unfinished worksite.

From Barron's

“Fed rate cuts are unfinished business,” he writes.

From Barron's

“Because the state is young and its cities and institutions are not bound by the weight of tradition,” he wrote in 2002, “like an unfinished canvas, Arizona still epitomizes the frontier.”

From The Wall Street Journal

unfinished

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