Meaning & use
ungraded
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Meanings
adjectivebefore a noun
Not marked or given a grade, as with schoolwork or a course.
Grammar: Used before a noun or after be: an ungraded quiz; the quiz is ungraded.
Patterns
- an ungraded assignment
The teacher set an ungraded quiz so students could practice without pressure.
The course is ungraded, so you only need to attend.
Her ungraded essays still came back full of comments.
adjectivebefore a noun
Not sorted into classes or levels of quality, size or difficulty.
Grammar: Often describes goods sold in bulk: ungraded eggs.
The farmer sold ungraded apples at half price.
The ungraded reading books were piled on one shelf.
Ungraded diamonds are rarely valued by jewelers.
adjectivebefore a nountechnical
Describing land or a road that has not been levelled or smoothed.
Grammar: Used about ground: an ungraded track.
The truck rattled along an ungraded gravel road.
Builders disliked the ungraded site because of its steep slope.
Common combinations
- ungraded assignment
- It was an ungraded assignment, but she did it anyway.
- ungraded course
- The workshop is an ungraded course.
- ungraded road
- The ungraded road turned to mud in the rain.
- ungraded eggs
- The market sells cheap ungraded eggs.
- remain ungraded
- Several papers remained ungraded over the weekend.
Synonyms and how they differ
- unmarked
- This is about a paper that has not been checked, while ungraded can also mean a task that gives no grade at all.
- unsorted
- This means not arranged into groups, without the quality judgement that graded implies.
- pass/fail
- This describes a system that records only a pass or fail, so it is not the same as no grade at all.
Opposites
Word family
Commonly confused: ungraded or ungrateful?
ungraded vs ungrateful
Ungrateful describes someone who does not show thanks and has nothing to do with marks or sorting.
Practice
The professor said the first test would be ___, so no one's final mark would be affected.
Choose one answer.
Ungraded means it receives no grade, so it cannot affect the final mark. Downgraded and upgraded describe a change in level, and ungrateful is about thanks.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “ungraded”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.