unmedical
English
Etymology
un- + medical
Adjective
unmedical (comparative more unmedical, superlative most unmedical)
- Not medical.
- 1836, “Boz” [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], Sketches by “Boz,” Illustrative of Every-day Life, and Every-day People. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Macrone, […], OCLC 912950347:
- The medical gentleman […] was observed to laugh and wink, and look as unmedical as might be; but when Mr. Leaver came back he was very solemn […]
- 1989, Oliver Sacks, Seeing Voices: A Journey into the World of the Deaf
- The press […] failed to give the watching world an actual vision of the fullness and vividness, the unmedical life, of the deaf.
- 1996 December 13, Cecil Adams, “THEY THOUGHT OF THE WORD FOR WHEN YOU CAN'T THINK OF THE WORD. UNFORTUNATELY, THEY ALL THOUGHT OF A DIFFERENT WORD.”, in Chicago Reader:
- A few years ago, you may remember, I turned up the medical term "ice cream headache," which is completely unmedical in that you don't have to consult a doctor to find out what it means.
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Anagrams
- calumnied, unclaimed, undecimal