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unfinished
CIDE DICTIONARY
unfinished, 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. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
unfinished
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, wantingROGET THESAURUS
unfinished
Incompleteness
N incompleteness, deficiency, short measure, shortcoming, insufficiency, imperfection, immaturity, half measures, defect, deficit, defalcation, omission, caret, shortage, interval, break, noncompletion, missing link, missing piece, missing part, gap, hole, lacuna, incomplete, imperfect, unfinished, uncompleted &c (complete), defective, deficient, wanting, lacking, failing, in default, in arrear, short of, hollow, meager, lame, halfand-half, perfunctory, sketchy, crude, mutilated, garbled, docked, lopped, truncated, in progress, in hand, going on, proceeding, incompletely, by halves, caetera desunt, caret.Noncompletion
N noncompletion, nonfulfillment, shortcoming, incompleteness, drawn battle, drawn game, work of Penelope, nonperformance, inexecution, neglect, not completed, incomplete, uncompleted, unfinished, unaccomplished, unperformed, unexecuted, sketchy, addle, in progress, in hand, ongoing, going on, proceeding, on one's hands, on the anvil, in the fire, in the oven, parboiled, half-baked, re infecta.For further exploring for "unfinished" in Webster Dictionary Online