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Picked vs Unpicked - What's the difference?

picked | unpicked |

As verbs the difference between picked and unpicked

is that picked is past tense of pick while unpicked is past tense of unpick.

As adjectives the difference between picked and unpicked

is that picked is pointed; sharp while unpicked is not having been picked.

picked

English

Verb

(head)
  • (pick)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) pointed; sharp
  • * Chapman
    • Picked and polished.
  • * Mortimer
    • Let the stake be made picked at the top.
  • (zoology, of fishes) Having a pike or spine on the back.
    • the picked dogfish
  • (obsolete) fine; spruce; smart; precise; dainty
  • * 1590 , , V. i. 13:
    • He is too / picked , too spruce, too affected, too odd, as it were, / too peregrinate, as I may call it.
  • * 1596 , , I. i. 193:
    • Why then I suck my teeth and catechize / My picked man of countries:
    (Webster 1913)

    unpicked

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (unpick)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Not having been picked.
    • a row of unpicked strawberries