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UNLIVED

Definition: UNLIVED

UNLIVED

Adjective

1. Bereft or deprived of life.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "UNLIVED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1594. (references)


Modern Usage: UNLIVED

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Screenplays

One thing I've learned is don't be afraid of death but be afraid of the unlived life. (Tuck Everlasting; writing credit: Jeffrey Lieber)

Or are you going to your grave with unlived lives in your veins? (The Good Girl; writing credit: Mike White)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: UNLIVED

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Books

  • A Woman's Book of Days: I Will Not Die an Unlived Life (reference)

  • Elegiac Fictions: The Motif of the Unlived Life (reference)

  • Mourning Unlived Lives: A Psychological Study of Childbearing Loss (reference)

  • UnLived Lives (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Use in Literature: UNLIVED

TitleAuthorQuote

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

Consciousness of place came ebbing back to him slowly over a vast tract of time unlit, unfelt, unlived.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Expression: UNLIVED

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "UNLIVED": unlived-in.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Misspellings: UNLIVED

Misspellings

"UNLIVED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: enlived, unalive, unlife, unliked, unliven, unliver. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: UNLIVED

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-i-l-n-u-v"

-1 letter: unlive, unveil.

-2 letters: devil, indue, levin, lined, lived, liven, nudie, unled, vined.

-3 letters: deil, deli, deni, diel, dine, dive, duel, dune, evil, idle, lend, leud, lied, lien, lieu, line, live, lude, lune, nevi, nide, nude, unde, veil, vein, veld, vend, vide, vied, vile, vine.

-4 letters: del, den, dev, die, din, due, dui, dun, eld.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-i-l-n-u-v"
 

+1 letter: unlevied, unveiled.

 

+2 letters: devaluing, involuted, unrivaled.

 

+3 letters: devolution, divulgence, uninvolved, unrelieved, unrivalled, vulcanised, vulcanized.

 

+4 letters: devaluating, devaluation, devolutions, divulgences, inductively, mendelevium, overindulge, unadvisedly, unavoidable, uncivilized, undelivered, undissolved.

 

+5 letters: antediluvian, delusiveness, devaluations, diminutively, inequivalved, mendeleviums, overbuilding, overclouding, overindulged, overindulges, quadrivalent, unalleviated, uncultivated, undervaluing, unprivileged, unrelievedly, unventilated, unverbalized, valetudinary, vaudevillian.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: UNLIVED


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

55 4E 4C 49 56 45 44

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..-    -.    .-..    ..    ...-    .    -..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010101 01001110 01001100 01001001 01010110 01000101 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#78 &#76 &#73 &#86 &#69 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 004E 004C 0049 0056 0045 0044

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

55484643563938

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Fiction
5. Expressions
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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