Ungathered (Adjective)
Meaning
Not brought together in one place; "uncollected garbage in the streets".
Classification
Participial adjectives.
Examples
- Leaves lay uncollected and ungathered in the yard as autumn faded into winter.
- The news team sifted through files and notes, both gathered and ungathered data a challenge to synthesize.
- As the clock struck five, students quickly left the auditorium, leaving dozens of ungathered backpacks on the floor.
- Old maps lay strewn across the workbench, with documents both gathered, neatly filed, and ungathered, worn at the creases.
- Years later, family members continued the massive effort to return her vast collection of artwork to the museum, laboriously reassembling the gathered and the few pieces she had left ungathered.