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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unfinished
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
business
▪ Seeing their own children in their teens may bring their own adolescence forcibly to mind, along with its unfinished business.
▪ Obon is for closing off unfinished business, for restoring bonds, for healing and remembering.
▪ However, during our hand-over General Churchill mentioned one piece of unfinished business.
▪ Each of these women had left some unfinished business.
▪ There was definitely some unfinished business between the two of them, but he was extremely tired.
▪ One bit of unfinished business was to obtain for Joe the Legion of Merit award.
▪ Then he would be up and about, able to apply himself to unfinished business.
▪ Those people that you have unfinished business with.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
unfinished business
▪ Each of these women had left some unfinished business.
▪ However, during our hand-over General Churchill mentioned one piece of unfinished business.
▪ Obon is for closing off unfinished business, for restoring bonds, for healing and remembering.
▪ One bit of unfinished business was to obtain for Joe the Legion of Merit award.
▪ Seeing their own children in their teens may bring their own adolescence forcibly to mind, along with its unfinished business.
▪ Then he would be up and about, able to apply himself to unfinished business.
▪ There was definitely some unfinished business between the two of them, but he was extremely tired.
▪ Those people that you have unfinished business with.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ She looked away, leaving her sentence unfinished.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Dissatisfied even after weeks of painful struggle, he returned to Paris in the fall with his unfinished works.
▪ He was impressed with her big white slab of a body like an unfinished sculpture.
▪ Her face was rather blunt, the features unfinished putty dabs, and now it was swollen with crying.
▪ It is important not to go on for too long, or to leave difficult business unfinished.
▪ The floor was bare and unfinished concrete, and I could jump rope without self-consciousness, without interference.
▪ The second volume, however, had a number of letters as well as an unfinished play to make the required length.
▪ The Verve set features 42 alternate and unfinished takes, while the Blue Note set consists entirely of previously released material.
▪ This ruin is an unfinished structure about twenty feet high which covers more than an acre.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unfinished

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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unfinished

1550s, from un- (1) "not" + past participle of finish (v.).

Wiktionary
unfinished

a. Not finished, not completed.

WordNet
unfinished
  1. adj. 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]

Wikipedia
Unfinished (How I Met Your Mother)

"Unfinished" is the third episode of the sixth season of the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother, and the 115th episode overall. It aired on October 4, 2010.

Unfinished (album)

Unfinished is the third studio album by American singer-songwriter Jordan Knight, released on May 31, 2011. It is Knight's first album in almost five years since Love Songs (2006). The album was preceded by the lead single, " Let's Go Higher" on March 1, 2011. The album charted at number 48 on the Billboard 200 in the United States, and at number 55 in Canada. The album features production by Jordan Knight, Clinton Sparks, Colby O'Donis, Aaron Pearce, Jonas Jeberg, Ryan M. Tedder (Not to be confused with Ryan Tedder of OneRepublic fame) and more.

Unfinished (song)

"→unfinished→" is the 18th single released by the Japanese-pop singer Kotoko. The title track, composed by Satoshi Yaginuma of fripSide, was used as the ending theme song for the anime Accel World. It was released under Warner Music Japan.

Usage examples of "unfinished".

While these unfinished exclamations were actually passing my lips I chanced to cross that infernal mat, and it is no more startling than true, but at my word a quiver of expectation ran through that gaunt web--a rustle of anticipation filled its ancient fabric, and one frayed corner surged up, and as I passed off its surface in my stride, the sentence still unfinished on my lips, wrapped itself about my left leg with extraordinary swiftness and so effectively that I nearly fell into the arms of my landlady, who opened the door at the moment and came in with a tray and the steak and tomatoes mentioned more than once already.

The steps leading up to the church and the unfinished columns were erected in 1825 from designs by Marchese Don Luigi Cagnola, the architect of the Arco della Pace at Milan.

The dark confusion of images that Thomas Blas had passed to Martin, suggested the death agony of emotionally unfinished business.

Laughing Water, From the ground fair Minnehaha, Laid aside her mat unfinished, Brought forth food and set before them, Water brought them from the brooklet, Gave them food in earthen vessels, Gave them drink in bowls of bass-wood, Listened while the guest was speaking, Listened while her father answered, But not once her lips she opened, Not a single word she uttered.

One of the main uses of the hyphen, of course, is to indicate that a word is unfinished and continues on the next line.

Ditto or unfinished mortar of the malpais for grinding chili and other ingredients for sauce.

Without the misnamed supernatural these to me seem incomplete, unfinished.

Mission Row, past the white-washed Convalescia, the boarded-up academies facing the unfinished wing of the Edificia, begun during the generous patronship of the Sanctor Kentos and left unfinished by his son.

There was furthermore the unfinished space beyond, where one wrong step sent you into unknown territory where the flooring gave way to punky plaster and old lath.

What an explication it gives of those mysteries of evil, pain, sorrow and retribution, which often wrap the innocent and the wicked in one sad fate, if we but see that no individual stands alone, but trails along with him the unfinished sequels of all ancestral experience, and, furthermore, is so bound up with his simultaneous race that each is responsible for all and all for each, and that no one can be wholly saved or safe until all are redeemed and perfected!

The tug of the unfinished chase was very faint, and whether Allyx and Showman ever sired another foal seemed a matter of supreme unimportance.

The scene is almost spooky: a tall, unfinished tower looming solitarily on a dusty plain.

This, then, is a union of Reason with something that is not Reason but a mere indeterminate striving in a being not yet illuminated: the offspring Love, therefore, is not perfect, not self-sufficient, but unfinished, bearing the signs of its parentage, the undirected striving and the self-sufficient Reason.

On the day before the opening, a gray limousine pulled off the high-level throughway and halted on an unfinished access ramp overlooking the approaches into the sports complex.

But Washington is but a ragged, unfinished collection of unbuilt broad streets, as to the completion of which there can now, I imagine, be but little hope.