Unshifted

Part of speech: adjective

Definitions

1. Remaining in its original location or state without having been moved or displaced ; (of a vehicle) not having the transmission altered from its current gear
2. Staying in place without being repositioned or transferred ; (of a motor vehicle) maintaining the same gear without changing up or down
3. Left undisplaced in its starting position or condition ; (of a vehicle's transmission) kept in the same gear without shifting to another speed

Etymology: "Unshifted" is a plain formation: the prefix "un-", meaning "not", attached to "shifted," the past participle of "shift." The prefix goes back to Old English "un-," which was already widely used to reverse or negate adjectives and participles, so English speakers could form a negative from almost any past participle without coining anything new. "Shift" itself has a more interesting past. It comes from Old English "sciftan," meaning to arrange or divide, and its sense of moving something from one place to another developed later. Because "unshifted" simply inverts that sense, it describes something that has stayed where it was, fixed in place or unchanged.

Synonyms: unmoved, unchanged, stationary

Antonyms: shifted, moved, changed