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ungained

Adjective CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. Not gained.
    not-comparable
  2. That one has not acquired possession of.
    not-comparable
  3. Not reached.
    not-comparable
  4. Unaccomplished; not achieved.
    not-comparable
  5. Not won over.
    not-comparable
  6. Not increased.
    not-comparable

Examples

“Men prize the thing ungained more than it is;”
“The streams run⟳ on, in bold, malicious haste, His lip can touch⟳ the fruit, but cannot taste⟳; In vain he struggles from his chain to burst⟳ The stream, the fruit's ungained—unquenched his thirst!”
“To refer⟳ to something ungained seems impossible in an ordinary way, but we can simulate the time evolution by the method called "generate-and-search".”
“ungained advantage”
“ungained heights”
“He fancied four of his children stood there, hand in hand, and stared at him rather mournfully; and that Dorothy was that statue with the fingers of its right hand on the top bar of the tapestry-seated chair which was in fact the commode Titball had provided. A commode as yet ungained.”
“What ought to be gained by industry and economy or left ungained is often secured by fraud in some form⟳ among the class spoken of as enterprising and substantial citizens,”
“It is always greater, and the difference is the ungained work⟳ and the “lost work⟳,” which has not yet been discussed.”
“ungained goals”
“There was another person, however, still ungained ; and that was no other than her footman, whose secrecy our hero attempted to secure in the morning by an handsome present⟳, which he received with many professions of gratitude and devotion to his service; yet this complaisance was nothing but a cloak used to disguise the design⟳ he arboured of making his master acquainted with the whole transaction.”
“How many brethren alienated for all time, who might have⟳ been won back to God and to us, because we have⟳ hammered at the conscience merely, with the heart ungained — with the heart, I may say⟳, almost unsought!”
“ungained hearts and minds”
“Note⟳ that the signal shot noise is taken as the square root of the ungained signal times the MCP gain⟳.”
“ungained weight”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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