unborn

[ uhn-bawrn ]
See synonyms for unborn on Thesaurus.com
adjective
  1. not yet born; yet to come; future: unborn generations.

  2. not yet delivered; still existing in the mother's womb: an unborn baby.

  1. existing without birth or beginning.

Origin of unborn

1
before 900; Middle English; Old English unbornen.See un-1, born

Words Nearby unborn

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2024

How to use unborn in a sentence

British Dictionary definitions for unborn

unborn

/ (ʌnˈbɔːn) /


adjective
  1. not yet born or brought to birth

  2. still to come in the future: the unborn world

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012