unexercised
adjEtymology From un- + exercised.
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Not having been subjected to physical exercise.
- Says Colonel Thomas Murray, chief Army psychiatrist in South Viet Nam: “Some of our psychiatrists are the most improbable military guys: soft, flabby, unexercised.”1969 October 10, “Dividend from Viet Nam”, in Time:
- […] Lou was a respectful reader of the boy books that were emerging then, those magazines of black-and-white photos of teenagers with shaved chests, sucked-in if unexercised stomachs, and cloth posing-straps who stood on a dais silhouetted against a sunburst of seamless paper.1988, Edmund White, chapter 5, in The Beautiful Room is Empty, New York: Vintage International, published 1994:
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- Unexercised joints get stiffer, but the wrong sort of exercise can strain the joints, damaging them further.2012 December 16, Geeta Padmanabhan, “Movement, the best medicine”, in The Hindu: