uncompounded

uncompounded

English

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English un-
English compounded
English uncompounded

    From un- + compounded.

    Adjective

    uncompounded (not comparable)

    1. Not compounded.
      • 1945, E[lizabeth] G[idley] Withycombe, “Introduction”, in The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page xii:
        The short uncompounded names were naturally even less comprehensible than the compounded ones; […]

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