unwarped

[uhn-wawrpt]

adjective

1. not warped, as a phonograph record or flooring.

2. impartial; undistorted, as a point of view, judgment, or analysis.

Word History and Origins

Origin of unwarped¹

First recorded in 1735–45; un- ¹ + warp + -ed ²

Example Sentences

“It is strange,” pursued he, “that while I love Rosamond Oliver so wildly—with all the intensity, indeed, of a first passion, the object of which is exquisitely beautiful, graceful, fascinating—I experience at the same time a calm, unwarped consciousness that she would not make me a good wife; that she is not the partner suited to me; that I should discover this within a year after marriage; and that to twelve months’ rapture would succeed a lifetime of regret.

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He remained unbiased, his judgment unwarped.

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“Stephen was far from being the archetype unworldy or nerdish scientist—his personality remained amazingly unwarped by his frustrations and handicaps,” Martin Rees, a cosmologist at the University of Cambridge, and the United Kingdom’s astronomer royal, said in a statement.

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Then we heaped his barrow, lifting a gravestone on the mound, and fixed his light but unwarped oar against the sky.

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Crisply shooting the story in an older Brooklyn milieu unwarped by gentrification, Sallitt quickly establishes the quiet, intimate world of Jackie’s family, its rules and habits.

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