unshifted

[ uhn-shif-tid ]

adjective

1. (of a keyboard shift key) not pressed or activated.
2. (of a keyboard key) not requiring the shift key to activate:

   The semicolon is an unshifted key.

Word History and Origins

Origin of unshifted¹

un- ¹ + shift + -ed ²

Example Sentences

The new anti-dumping tariff rates for dispersion unshifted single-mode optical fiber imported from the U.S. range between 33.3 percent to 78.2 percent, compared with 4.7 percent to 18.6 percent as set in 2011.

From Reuters

But for a while after their departure Asa stood unmoving with his head intently bent in an attitude of listening—and though his rifle still nestled unshifted in its cradling elbow, the fingers of the trigger hand twitched a little and the brown eyes were again agate-hard.

From Project Gutenberg

The practical man and the man of science in my fable, were both of them dealing with Things: passing from one group of potential reaction to another, hurrying here, dallying there, till of the actual aspect of the landscape there remained nothing in their thoughts, trams and funiculars in the future, volcanoes and icecaps in the past, having entirely altered all that; only the material constituents and the geographical locality remaining as the unshifted item in those much pulled about bundles of thoughts of possibilities.

From Project Gutenberg

Note.— p, t, k remained unshifted in the combinations sp, st, sk as also t in the combinations tr, ht, ft.

From Project Gutenberg

“But he is alive,” said Syd, softly; and he proceeded to examine his bandages, thankful to find that the bleeding had stopped, and the splints, thanks to the board beneath the sufferer’s leg, unshifted.

From Project Gutenberg