unimpaired

[im-paird]

Origin

adjective

weakened, diminished, or damaged: impaired hearing; to rebuild an impaired bridge.

functioning poorly or inadequately: Consumption of alcohol results in an impaired driver.

deficient or incompetent (usually preceded by an adverb or noun): morally impaired; sports-impaired.

Origin:
impair + -ed²

Related forms

un·im·paired, adjective

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unimpaired (ˌʌnɪmˈpɛəd)

—*adj*
	not reduced or weakened in strength, quality, etc

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Word Origin & History

unimpaired

1583, from un- (1) "not" + pp. of impair. Rare before c.1760.

Slang Dictionary

impaired definition

mod.
alcohol intoxicated. (Euphemistic.) : He was so impaired he couldn't see his hand in front of his face.

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"This American government,—what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity? It has not the vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man can bend it to his will. It is a sort of wooden gun to the people themselves. But it is not the less necessary for this; for the people must have some complicated machinery or other, and hear its din, to satisfy that idea of government which they have. Governments show thus how successfully men can be imposed on, even impose on themselves, for their own advantage. It is excellent, we all must allow. Yet this government never of itself furthered any enterprise, but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way. It does not keep the country free. It does not settle the West. It does not educate. The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished. For government is an expedient by which men would fain succeed in letting one another alone; and, as has been said, when it is most expedient, the governed are most left alone by it."

-Henry David Thoreau