Worked vs Unworked - What's the difference?
worked | unworked |
(work)
Designed or executed in a particular manner or to a particular degree.
* 1811 , William Singers, "On the Varieties of Wheat, Barley, Oats, Peas, and Beans", Prize Essays and Transactions of the Highland Society of Scotland , page 73:
Wrought.
# Processed in a particular way; prepared via labour.
#* 1832 , James Justinian Morier, Zorhab the Hostage , page 39:
# Decorated or embellished; embroidered.
#* 1803 , William Alexander, The Costume of the Russian Empire , page 84:
Prepared so as to demonstrate the steps required.
* 1835 , R.H. Nicholls and Francis Walkingame, Taplin's Improved Edition of Walkingame's Tutor's Assistant , page 108:
Yet to be altered, carved, milled, worked, or otherwise changed from its natural or crude state.
*For years there stood in the sculptor's studio a two-ton block of unworked Italian marble.
(archaeology) Describing an unaltered material found associated with human tool-making or other cultural activity.
*Dozens of unworked obsidian cobbles were found buried with the deceased.
As adjectives the difference between worked and unworked
is that worked is designed or executed in a particular manner or to a particular degree while unworked is yet to be altered, carved, milled, worked, or otherwise changed from its natural or crude state.As a verb worked
is (work).worked
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(-)- A heavy rich loam'' is, perhaps, the best of any; but ''carse'' lands, and well worked and manured ''clay soils, are also very suitable.
- ...the light and elastic spear, made of the India bamboo, and tipped with the most perfectly worked steel, which he now held in his hand...
- ...and many of them, at least when young, wear only a worked piece of linen over their head.
- Place each error opposite its supposed number, as in the worked example.