unfinished

unfinished
I
(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
adj. crude, raw, sketchy, rough; incomplete; amateurish, inept; unpainted, etc. See unpreparedness, incompleteness, unskillfulness.
II
(Roget's IV) modif.
1. [Not completed]
Syn. uncompleted, undone, half done, incomplete, under construction, unperformed, imperfect, unconcluded, deficient, unexecuted, unaccomplished, in preparation, in the making, not done, in the rough, sketchy, tentative, shapeless, formless, unperfected, unfulfilled, undeveloped, unassembled, defective, found wanting, cut short, immature, faulty, crude, rough.
Ant. done*, completed, perfected.
2. [Without a finish]
Syn. natural, unpainted, unvarnished, unpolished, bare, raw, rough, crude, unprotected, uncovered, plain, undecorated, unadorned.
Ant. painted, varnished, enameled.
III
(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) a.
incomplete, uncompleted, half-done, *half-baked, unperfected, lacking, rough, wanting, crude, deficient, undeveloped.
ANT.: finished, perfected, done
IV
(Roget's Thesaurus II) adjective Not perfected, elaborated, or completed: preliminary, rough, sketchy, tentative, unperfected, unpolished. See START.

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