Antiacademy English Dictionary

UNACQUIRED

martes, 2 de febrero de 2010

UNACQUIRED


unacquired, participial adj.


[Composed by the negative prefix un- and acquired.]


Not acquired; unattained; innate.


Antonyms: acquired; adventitious, supervenient; gained, got, obtained, searched.


Synonyms: ungained, inherited, unobtained, ungot, unsought, unsearched.



[…] people are able to acquire unacquired resources as long as it doesn’t make the well being of others worse.


Daniel R. Stout, Bryce Glymour (Introduction to M. P., 2005)



Acquiring the unacquired.


Yoga: Its Origin and Historic Development



An unacquired fame.


Gilbert Parker (The Trespasser)



Acquired and Unacquired Duties.


Tom Regan (The case for animal rights, 2004)



Conjugates from Latin quorere. Remember these words as related etymologically to unacquired:

Acquest; quest, quester, questful, questing, questingly, question, questionable, questionability, questionableness, questionably, questionary, questioned, questionee, questioner, questioning, questioningly, questionist, questionless, questionlessly, questionnaire, questionous, questman; unquestionable, unquestionably, unquestionability, unquestionableness, unquestioned, unquestionedly, unquestioning, unquestioningly, unquestioningess, query; acquirable, acquirability, acquire, acquired, acquiree, acquirement, acquirer, acquiring, acquisition, acquisitive, acquisitively, acquisitiveness, acquisitor, acquist; inquest; inquire, inquirable, inquirendo, inquirer, inquiring, inquiringly, inquiry, inquisition, inquisitional, inquisitionist, inquisitive, inquisitively, inquisitiveness, inquisitor, inquisitorial, inquisitorially, inquisitorialness, inquisitress, enquiringly; require, required, requiredness, requirement, requirer, requiring, requisite, requisitely, requisiteness, requisition, requisitioning, requisitionally, requisitioner, requisitionist, requisitionize, requisitor, requisitory; conquer, conquerable, conquerableness, conquered, conqueress, conquering, conqueringly, conqueror, conquest; unconquered, unconquerable, unconquerableness, unconquerably, disquisition, disquisitional, disquisitionary, disquisitionist, disquisitive, disquisitively, disquisitor, disquisitorial; exquisite, exquisitely, exquisiteness, exquisitism, exquisitively; perquisite, perquisition, perquisitor; reacquire, reacquired, reacquisition; unacquirable, unacquirableness.