1. not placed in a coffin; not buried in a coffin
Usage: literary; archaic

Examples

• The uncoffined body lay in state on a simple wooden platform.
• In some cultures, the uncoffined dead are wrapped in shrouds.
• The poet wrote of uncoffined souls wandering the earth.
• Ancient warriors were sometimes left uncoffined on funeral pyres.
• The uncoffined remains were discovered in the old cemetery.