Untilled vs Unwilled - What's the difference?
untilled | unwilled |
Of land, having not been tilled.
*1900 , , (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz)
*:The Emerald City was soon left far behind. As they advanced the ground became rougher and hillier, for there were no farms nor houses in this country of the West, and the ground was untilled .
Not disposed of in a legal will.
*{{quote-book, year=1905, author=John Morley, title=Rousseau, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Or is it to go no further than to condemn such a law as that which in England gives unwilled lands to the eldest son? }}
Not willed or wished for.
*{{quote-book, year=1907, author=Antoinette Abernethy Lamoreaux, title=The Unfolding Life, chapter=, edition=
, passage=In early infancy activity is entirely purposeless and unwilled , merely the instinctive movement of every part of the body. }}
As adjectives the difference between untilled and unwilled
is that untilled is of land, having not been tilled while unwilled is not disposed of in a legal will.untilled
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(-)- Spring was upon us and the ground remained untilled .
unwilled
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