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unweighed

American  
[uhn-wayd] / ʌnˈweɪd /

adjective

  1. not weighed, as for poundage.

  2. not carefully thought about, as statements or opinions.


unweighed British  
/ ʌnˈweɪd /

adjective

  1. (of quantities purchased, etc) not measured for weight

  2. (of statements, etc) not carefully considered

"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

Etymology

Origin of unweighed

First recorded in 1475–85; un- 1 + weigh 1 + -ed 2


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Then came one of those impulses which keep human beings from becoming half gods—a wrong impulse, surrendered to immediately, unweighed, unanalyzed, unchallenged.

From The Pagan Madonna by W. H. D. (William Henry Dethlef) Koerner

For his wife's beautiful eyes were turned upon him, not in limpid adoration, not in perfect acceptance of all his views, unheard, unweighed; but with a question in their blue depths.

From The Sturdy Oak A composite Novel of American Politics by fourteen American authors by Elizabeth Garver Jordan

Many a shield full of treasure was then brought forth which the king dealt out unweighed to his many friends, to each five hundred marks of gold, and to a few, still more.

From The Nibelungenlied by Daniel Bussier Shumway

And now it seemed to me as if my riding cap was heavy with undeveloped bulbs, uncrystallized sugar, unweighed green tea.

From Daisy by Susan Warner

Exquisite scents, strange draperies, human forms have appeared seemingly out of nothing, and have returned whence they came unrecorded by photography, unweighed, unanalysed.

From Occultism and Common-Sense by Beckles Willson

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