unfinal

English

Etymology

un- +‎ final

Adjective

unfinal (comparative more unfinal, superlative most unfinal)

1. Not final; unresolved; inconclusive.
   • 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “chapter I, Aristocracies”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book IV (Horoscope):

     Huge French Revolutions, Napoleonisms, then Bourbonisms with their corollary of Three Days, finishing in very unfinal Louis-Philippisms: all this ought to be didactic! All this may have taught us, that False Aristocracies are insupportable; that No-Aristocracies, Liberty-and-Equalities are impossible […]

   • 1997, Thomas Mallon, Dewey Defeats Truman, Vintage, published 2013, →ISBN, page 329:

     So this was suicide. How unfinal it appeared to be.

   • 2013, Maria Grazia Nicolosi, “'And to defeat that shadow…he had to take it in homeopathically, in minute quantities of conscious reparation': Adam Thorpe's Unsentimental Historical Romances”, in Jean-Michel Ganteau, Susana Onega, editors, Trauma and Romance in Contemporary British Literature, Routledge, →ISBN, page 175:

     This resistance, on the writer's part, could well account for his mildly enigmatic, unfinal and anti-climactic denouements, often narrativised as happy endings of sorts, without actually being felt to be so by the characters, not even ironically.