Unslept vs Unswept - What's the difference?
unslept | unswept |
Not having been slept.
* 2011 , Donvé Lee, An Intimate War (page 116)
Not having been slept (in, on, with, etc.); usually with a preposition.
* 1957 , Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
* 1972 , Monica Dickens, World's End in Winter
As adjectives the difference between unslept and unswept
is that unslept is not having been slept while unswept is not swept.unslept
English
Adjective
(-)- My eyes burn from sleep unslept and from tears unshed. I long for oblivion. I am impossibly tired.
- The high-tension wires were lightning held forever, blazing, a threat above the unslept houses.
- Tom's room was empty, the bed unslept in.
