Unestimated

Part of speech: adjective

Definitions

1. Characterized by a lack of estimation regarding value or significance
2. indicating something that has not been measured or assessed
3. describing an element that remains uncertain or uncalculated in assessment

Etymology: "Unestimated" is a plain case of a prefix attached to an existing word. The prefix "un-" is the Old English negating element, meaning "not," and it has been attached to countless adjectives and participles over the centuries. "Estimated" comes from "estimate," which descends from the Latin "aestimare," meaning "to value" or "to judge the worth of something," and which entered English through Old French "estimer." Combining the two gives a word meaning "not estimated," that is, a quantity or factor that has not been assessed or placed on a scale of value. The sense the word carries today follows naturally from that literal meaning. Something unestimated is one of the unknowns left out of a calculation, a cost or risk that a plan has not yet put a figure on. The word is a functional technical formation rather than a literary one, and its meaning has stayed close to its parts, with no dramatic shift from the original sense.

Synonyms: unassessed, unmeasured, unknown, unvalued, unappraised

Antonyms: estimated, assessed, measured, valued, appraised