Untailored
Part of speech: adjective
Definitions
- Lacking any adaptation for specific measurements or styles, existing without personalized alterations or adjustments, signifies a general form that does not cater to individual tastes or preferences
- Existing in a raw form without custom tailoring, indicating a design that does not accommodate personal dimensions or aesthetics, it reflects a state that remains unmodified for individual selection
- Not shaped or modified to fit a particular person's measurements or preferences
Etymology: "Untailored" is simply the English prefix "un-", meaning "not", attached to "tailored", the past participle of "tailor" used as an adjective. The result describes clothing or other things made without being fitted to a particular person's measurements, or more broadly anything not shaped to suit a specific need. The base "tailored" comes from "tailor", which goes back to Old French "tailleor", meaning one who cuts, from "tailler" to cut. So the word carries the idea of cutting cloth to shape, and "untailored" keeps that sense of something left unshaped by the cutter's scissors.
Synonyms: unfitted, unshaped, unfinished, unsuited
Antonyms: tailored, fitted, customized, suited