Untoasted

Part of speech: adjective

Definitions

1. Not having been browned or crisped by exposure to heat, as with bread that has not been placed in a toaster
2. Still pale and soft because it has not been heated until golden, describing bread or similar food that is plain
3. Left unheated and unbrowned, referring to a slice of bread or another food that has not undergone toasting

Etymology: "Untoasted" is a plain compound: the prefix "un-" added to "toasted," the past participle of "toast." The prefix comes from a very old Germanic source, Proto-Indo-European "*né" (a negating particle meaning "not"), which passed through Proto-Germanic and Old English and has been used in English for well over a thousand years to reverse or negate a word's sense. "Toasted" is the older part of the pair. "Toast" entered English through Old French from Latin "torrere," meaning "to parch or dry with heat," and the bread sense developed from that idea of drying and browning by fire. Adding "un-" simply reverses the state: the bread has not been browned by heat.

Synonyms: raw, uncooked, plain

Antonyms: toasted, browned