Unborn

Origin

- + born

Full definition of unborn

Adjective

1. not yet born; yet to come; future.
2. not yet delivered; still existing in the mother's womb.
3. existing without birth or beginning.

Noun

1. (countable) A single unborn offspring at any stage of gestation.
• 2009, Catherine Playoust & Ellen Bradshaw Aitken, "The Leaping Child: Imagining the Unborn in Early Christian Literature", in Imagining the Fetus: The Unborn in Myth, Religion, and Culture (eds. Vanessa R. Sasson & Jane Marie Law), Oxford University Press (2009), ISBN 9780195380040, page 176:Whereas the lack of a child brings shame upon Anna and Joachim, the converse holds true for Mary: the existence of an unborn in the womb of a woman who is supposed to be a virgin causes great scandal.
2. (uncountable) Unborn offspring collectively.Inheritance law allows property to be left to the unborn.