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View synonyms for unborn

unborn

[ uhn-bawrn ]

adjective

  1. not yet born; yet to come; future:

    unborn generations.

  2. not yet delivered; still existing in the mother's womb:

    an unborn baby.

  3. existing without birth or beginning.


unborn

/ ʌnˈbɔːn /

adjective

  1. not yet born or brought to birth
  2. still to come in the future

    the unborn world



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Word History and Origins

Origin of unborn1

before 900; Middle English; Old English unbornen. See un- 1, born

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Example Sentences

There is this trinity of female mourning: for your grandmother, your mother, and your unborn daughter.

The letter attacks Braley for having “willingly voted for extreme measures that threaten the lives of unborn children.”

They fear for their unborn child, a baby girl who will be born into a family with no belongings, no money, and little food.

Zaun, who was starting to look like the favorite, took the stage to cheers and vowed “I will spill my blood to save the unborn.”

He understood that her unborn child was at the center of her struggle.

I seemed to be a creature out of a remote unborn age, centuries hence, and even that was as real as the rest!

And if you knew the mystery of the building up—why, the growth of an unborn child is more wonderful than you can conceive.

Gilliatt had discovered this, although he knew nothing of the dead Vitruvius or of the still unborn Weston.

His first feeling now was one of pity for the untimely fate of these gentle ewes and their unborn lambs.

The sky was leaden, lowering, sinister, pregnant with unborn snow.

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