untended

1. 1.

   lacking care and attention

   “untended garden was soon overgrown with weeds”

   “untended children”

   Similaruncared-for

Questions about untended

What does untended mean?

untended means "lacking care and attention".

How many syllables are in untended?

untended has 3 syllables and divides as un-ten-ded under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is untended a common word?

untended is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.