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Definition: Unread |
UnreadAdjective1. Not having been read; "through sheer mischance the letter remained unread". 2. Not informed through reading; "he seems to have been wholly unread in political theory"- V.L.Parrington. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "unread" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1602. (references) |
| Antonym: read (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Ignorance | Shallow, superficial, green, rude, empty, half-learned, illiterate; unread, uninformed, uneducated, unlearned, unlettered, unbookish; empty-headed,dizzy, wooly-headed; pedantic; |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Unread |
| Specialty definitions using "unread": circular buffer ♦ FUBAR. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | The unread book and painful look, the TV's on, the sound is down (Hunter; performing artist: Dido) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Unread" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unread" is used about 52 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 52 | 47,145 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
unread | 14 |
message unread | 9 |
mail unread | 8 |
e mail unread | 4 |
count folder its not polled unread | 3 |
rec.radio.swap unread | 2 |
as flag flagged mark message message not this unread | 2 |
click here message unread view | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "unread"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i palexuar. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | неук (bookless, letterless, unbooked, unbred, uneducated, unlearned, unschooled, untaught), нечетен (odd, uneven), необразован (benighted, ignorant, illiterate, letterless, unaccomplished, uncultivated, uneducated, unlearned, unlettered, unschooled, untaught, untutored), неначетен (unlettered), непрочетен. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | neseètìlý, nepřeètený. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | ikke afregnet gas (unbilled gas, unread gas), endnu ikke afregnet gas (unbilled gas, unread gas). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | nog niet afgerekend gas (unbilled gas, unread gas). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | قراءت نشده , خوانده نشده (Unsung), بیسواد (Lowbrow). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | gaz en compteur (unbilled gas, unread gas). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | ungelesen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αδιάβαστοσ (unprepared). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | nem olvasott. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | non letto. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 見残す (to leave unseen or unread). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | みの"す (to leave unseen or unread). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eadunray sem instrução (unenlightened, ungrounded, unposted, unschooled, untutored), que não lê, não lido, iletrado (illiterate, letterless, unbookish, unlearned, unlettered, untaught). (various references) непрочитанный. (various references) neuk (ignorant, inexpert, nescient, unlearned, untaught), nepročitan, nečitan. (various references) no leído. (various references) olästa. (various references) okunmamış, okumamış (illiterate, uneducated, unenlightened, unlettered, unscholarly, unschooled, untaught), cahil (benighted, ignoramus, ignorant, illiterate, nescient, rude, uneducated, unenlightened, unilluminated, uninformed, unknowing, unlearned, unlettered, untutored, yahoo). (various references) неосвічений (bookless, illiberal, illiterate, museless, uneducated), непрочитаний. (various references) không ai đọc không có học, không đọc, dốt nát (dark, illiterate, letterless, unlearned). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "unread": unreadable, unreadier, unreadiest, unreadiness, unreadinesses, unready. (additional references) | |
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"Unread" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: unbead, unea, uneed, unfreedom, ungerade, unheed, unlead, unrar, unream, unrid, unride, ureat, urnae. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "unread" (pronounced unre"d) |
| 3 | -r e" d | bread, bred, dread, interbred, purebred, read, red, Redd, retread, shred, spread, thoroughbred, thread, tread, widespread. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-n-r-u" | |
-1 letter: denar, nuder, redan, under. | |
-2 letters: dare, darn, dean, dear, dune, dura, dure, durn, earn, nard, near, nerd, nude, nurd, rand, read, rend, rude, rued, rune, unde, urea. | |
-3 letters: and, ane, are, den, due, dun, ear, eau, end, era, ern, nae, rad, ran, red, rue, run, urd, urn. | |
-4 letters: ad, ae, an, ar, de, ed. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-n-r-u" | |
+1 letter: asunder, danseur, daunder, daunter, duramen, durance, launder, lurdane, manured, maunder, natured, rondeau, unaired, unarmed, undrape, unheard, unraked, unrated, unrazed, unready, untread, uranide. | |
+2 letters: breadnut, danseurs, daunders, daunters, denarius, denature, dentural, dungaree, duramens, durances, furnaced, grandeur, indurate, launders, lurdanes, maunders, muraenid, pendular, rondeaux, ruinated, squander, surnamed, transude, truanted, turbaned, unargued, unbarbed, unbarred, unbeared, unbraced, unbraked, uncrated, underact, underage, underarm, underate, undereat, underjaw, underlap, underlay, underpay, underran, undersea, undertax, underway, undraped, undrapes, undreamt, unearned, unerased, unfeared, unframed, ungraced, ungraded, unhaired, unharmed, unloader, unmarked, unmarred, unpaired, unparted, unraised, unranked, unrepaid, unseared, unshared, unthread, untraced, untreads, unvaried, unwarmed, unwarned, unwarped, uplander, uranides, uredinia, urinated. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 6E 72 65 61 64 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -. .-. . .- -.. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01101110 01110010 01100101 01100001 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U n r e a d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 006E 0072 0065 0061 0064 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)558084716770 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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