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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unseeded
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Despite her success last year, Julie is unseeded.
▪ Larsson will play unseeded Wally Masur in the final eight.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unseeded

1775, "not sown," from un- (1) "not" + past participle of seed (v.). From 1932 in the sports sense.

Wiktionary
unseeded

a. 1 Not seeded (in any sense). 2 (context sports English) Not being a seed, not being in a seed position.

WordNet
unseeded

  1. adj. not seeded; used of players of lesser skill [ant: seeded]

  2. (of a piece of ground) not have a crop sown on it; "farmland still unsown" [syn: unsown]

Usage examples of "unseeded".

Those three acres will feed as many horses as heaven knows how huge an area of unseeded, uncared for, wasted pasture would feed.

Although the soil was rich for corn and wheat, sections had been allowed to go unseeded and bore no crop save for weeds.

In the very last couple years of solar, Unsubsidized Time, this kid Eric Clipperton appeared for the first time as an unseeded sixteen-year-old in East Coast regional tournament play.