unexercised

unexercised

English

Etymology

un- +‎ exercised

Adjective

unexercised (not comparable)

1. Not having been subjected to physical exercise.
   • 1969, “Dividend from Viet Nam,” Time, 10 October, 1969,

     Says Colonel Thomas Murray, chief Army psychiatrist in South Viet Nam: “Some of our psychiatrists are the most improbable military guys: soft, flabby, unexercised.”

   • 1988, Edmund White, The Beautiful Room is Empty, New York: Vintage International, 1994, Chapter Five,

     […] Lou was a respectful reader of the boy books that were emerging then, those magazines of black-and-white photos of teenagers with shaved chests, sucked-in if unexercised stomachs, and cloth posing-straps who stood on a dais silhouetted against a sunburst of seamless paper.

   • 2012, Geeta Padmanabhan, “Movement, the best medicine,” The Hindu, 16 December, 2012,

     Unexercised joints get stiffer, but the wrong sort of exercise can strain the joints, damaging them further.

2. (finance, law) Not having been exercised
   • 2007 January 30, Bloomberg News, “CNet Restatement Goes Back to 1996”, in New York Times‎:

     Shelby W. Bonnie, the former chief executive, agreed to reprice 700,000 unexercised shares, the company said yesterday in a statement.