unsiftedとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

unsifted (not comparable)

1. Not having been sifted.

   If you bake with unsifted flour you don't know how much you are using because it might be packed down or very fluffy.

2. (archaic, figuratively) Inexperienced; untried, unscrutinized.
   • c. 1599–1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene iii]:

     […] You speak like a green girl,
     Unsifted in such perilous circumstance.