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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

UNFIN'ISHED, a. Not finished; not complete; not brought to an end; imperfect; wanting the last hand or touch; as an unfinished house; an unfinished painting.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: not brought to the desired final state [ant: finished]
2: not brought to an end or conclusion; "unfinished business"; "the building is still unfinished" [ant: finished]
3: lacking a surface finish such as paint; "bare wood"; "unfinished furniture" [syn: bare, unfinished]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1539 not finished: a. not brought to an end or to the desired final state b. being in a rough state ; unpolished c. subjected to no other processes (as bleaching or dyeing) after coming from the loom

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. not finished; incomplete.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Unfinished Un*fin"ished, a. Not finished, not brought to an end; imperfect; incomplete; left in the rough; wanting the last hand or touch; as, an unfinished house; an unfinished picture; an unfinished iron casting.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you describe something such as a work of art or a piece of work as unfinished, you mean that it is not complete, for example because it was abandoned or there was no time to complete it. ...Jane Austen's unfinished novel... The cathedral was eventually completed in 1490, though the Gothic facade remains unfinished... = incomplete ADJ: ADJ n, v-link ADJ, ADJ after v

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Incomplete, unexecuted, unaccomplished, unperformed. 2. Incomplete, imperfect, uncompleted.

Moby Thesaurus

adulterated, amateurish, arrested, backward, blemished, coarse, crude, dabbling, damaged, defective, deficient, dilettante, dilettantish, embryonic, erroneous, fallible, faulty, found wanting, immature, impaired, imperfect, imprecise, impure, in embryo, in ovo, in the rough, inaccurate, inadequate, incomplete, inexact, jackleg, lacking, makeshift, mediocre, mixed, neglected, not perfect, off, oversimple, partial, patchy, reductionistic, reductive, rough, roughcast, roughhewn, rude, rudimental, rudimentary, semiskilled, short, simplistic, sketchy, stunted, unaccomplished, unachieved, unattained, unblown, unbusinesslike, uncoached, uncompleted, unconsummated, uncultivated, uncultured, uncut, underdeveloped, undeveloped, undischarged, undone, undressed, unendowed, uneven, unexecuted, unfashioned, unformed, unfulfilled, ungifted, unhewn, uninitiated, unlabored, unlicked, unperfected, unperformed, unpolished, unprepared, unprimed, unprocessed, unprofessional, unrealized, unrefined, unschooled, unskilled, unsound, untalented, untaught, unthorough, untrained, untreated, untutored, unworked, unwrought, wanting