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# unsheared

adjective (unsheared)

«unsheared» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

Unsheared means not sheared: an unsheared sheep still has all its wool because it has not been clipped. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unsheared/#m1)

### In the lessons

Used on farms and in stories about sheep and shearing; in science and geography lessons about wool. In maths word problems, sheep may be sheared or unsheared: unsheared = total − sheared. Related: shear (to cut wool off), shearer, shorn.

### Examples

- Twenty sheep were sheared, but ten are still unsheared. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unsheared/#x1)
- The unsheared sheep looked fat and fluffy. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unsheared/#x2)
- An unsheared sheep can get too hot in summer. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unsheared/#x3)
- The farmer counted the unsheared sheep in the pen. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unsheared/#x4)
- There are 60 sheep; 45 are sheared, so 15 are unsheared. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unsheared/#x5)

### Note

«Un-» + «sheared». Past of «shear» is «sheared», and the adjective «shorn» also means cut. Homophone trap: «sheer» (very steep, or complete) sounds like «shear». In maths: unsheared = total − sheared (60 − 45 = 15).

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «unsheared» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unsheared/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«unsheared» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/unsheared.html) on Mova free.