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# unconsumed

«unconsumed» in Mova's school dictionary: **not eaten, drunk or used up (formal)** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

1) Unconsumed means not eaten, drunk or used up (formal). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unconsumed/#m1)

2) Unconsumed can describe fuel or energy that was not burned or used. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unconsumed/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

This is a formal word in science, money and exam texts: unconsumed food is leftover food; unconsumed fuel was not burned. In everyday talk people say «uneaten», «unused» or «left over». Phrases: unconsumed food, unconsumed fuel.

### examples

- Unconsumed food was given to the food bank. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unconsumed/#x1)
- The scientists measured the unconsumed fuel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unconsumed/#x2)
- Half the meal was left unconsumed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unconsumed/#x3)
- Unconsumed medicine should be taken back to the pharmacy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unconsumed/#x4)
- The unconsumed electricity was stored in a battery. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unconsumed/#x5)
- So they went indoors together and sat down, and the man brought out the bread, meat, and wine, which although he had eaten and drunk of them, were still unconsumed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unconsumed/#x6)

### note

Formal. Prefix un- + consumed. Plain words: uneaten, unused, leftover. In maths, «unconsumed» means what is left, so subtract the used amount from the total.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «unconsumed» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unconsumed/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.