unplastic

• a word derived from plastic.
  plastic

  noun

  Often any of a group of synthetic or natural organic materials that may be shaped when soft and then hardened, including many types of resins, resinoids, polymers, cellulose derivatives, casein materials, and proteins: used in place of other materials, as glass, wood, and metals, in construction and decoration, for making many articles, as coatings, and, drawn into filaments, for weaving. They are often known by trademark names, as Bakelite, Vinylite, or Lucite.

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He had become an apostle of Life's mutability, chained to no fixed post of unplastic thought.

From The Tempering by Charles Neville Buck

But if it was heated under pressure it changed into another and a new kind of resin that was hard, inelastic, unplastic, infusible and insoluble.

From Creative Chemistry Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries by Edwin E. Slosson

Certainly those years were like the married years of many another young woman of that unplastic day.

From Gigolo by Edna Ferber

His unplastic nature would one day be his chief bulwark; as now, it was his chief stumbling block.

From The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest by James B. (James Beardsley) Hendryx

There was a feeling of awe upon her which made her mute, and stern, and altogether unplastic in the hands of her friends.

From Ralph the Heir by Anthony Trollope

Related Words

• elastic
• molded