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Definition: Unopened |
UnopenedAdjective1. Not yet opened or unsealed; "unopened Christmas presents". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "unopened" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1749. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Closure | Adjective: closed; Verb: shut, operculated; unopened. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Unopened |
| English words defined with "unopened": buntal ♦ clove ♦ flower bud. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "unopened": BAR ATTENDANT ♦ Concealed Damage. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Unopened Letter (1914) | |
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. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | On the transfer of the archives to Halifax, this package, proving to be of no public concern, was left behind, and had remained ever since unopened. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | All tenders are kept unopened until expiration of the bids due date. Prospective contractors are not present at bid openings; however, the results are normally announced to all participants by letter or telephone. (references) | |
Human Rights | Congo | The bodies of many persons killed in the war were burned, dumped in rivers, or buried in mass graves that remain unopened. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Unopened" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unopened" is used about 118 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% | 118 | 29,674 |
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 |
unopened baseball card | 8 |
ataris letter lyrics unopened world | 2 |
geodes unopened | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "unopened"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | jo i hapur. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 未"开. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | avaamaton (closed, uncut), alkamaton (not commenced). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | ungeöffnet (unopen), unerschlossen (undeveloped, unexploited, unexplored, untapped). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | όχι ανοικτόσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | zárt (close, closed, dead air, enclosed, fast, Inclosed, included, locked, oriel, oriel-window, sealed, serried, shut), ki nem nyitott, felbontatlan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | openedunay нераскрытый (undisclosed, untold). (various references) zatvoren (cloistered, closed, confined, jailed, landlocked, not public, reserved), neotvoren (undone). (various references) oöppnad. (various references) kapalı (backhanded, cloistered, close, closed, cloudy, cloudyly, covered, enclosed, Gray, grey, impenetrable, indoor, muggy, murky, off, overcast, privy, sable, sealed, secluded, shut, skyless, sullen), açılmamış (unwound). (various references) không mở, bị đóng lại. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Unopened" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: unavenged, unpeoned. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "unopened" (pronounced unō"pund) |
| 5 | -ō" p u n d | opened, reopened. |
| 4 | -p u n d | cheapened, dampened, deepened, happened, ripened, sharpened, steepened, stipend. |
| 3 | -u n d | abandoned, aforementioned, aland, almond, apportioned, auctioned, auditioned, awakened, bargained, beckoned, blackened, bludgeoned, brightened, broadened, burdened, burgeoned, buttoned, captioned, cautioned, championed, chastened, chickened, christened, commissioned, conditioned, cordoned, cottoned, cushioned, darkened, decommissioned, destined, determined, diamond, dimensioned, disciplined, disheartened, disillusioned, dockland, Eland, emblazoned, emboldened, engined, enlightened, enlivened, envisioned, errand, evened, examined, fashioned, fastened, fattened, flattened, frightened, functioned, gardened, Garland, garrisoned, glistened, hardened, hastened, heartened, heightened, Highland, Holland, husband, illumined, imagined, impassioned, imprisoned, island, jettisoned, leavened, legend, lengthened, lessened, ligand, lightened, likened, listened, livened, loosened, malfunctioned, margined, mentioned, millisecond, moistened, moribund, motioned, nanosecond, Norland, occasioned, optioned, orphaned, Osmund, overburdened, pardoned, partitioned, petitioned, poisoned, positioned, predestined, predetermined, prisoned, proportioned, propositioned, questioned, quickened, rationed, reasoned, reawakened, rechristened, reckoned, reconditioned, reexamined, repositioned, requisitioned, Reverend, ruined, saddened, sanctioned, seasoned, second, sectioned, Shetland, shortened, sickened, siphoned, slackened, softened, soland, stationed, stiffened, straightened, strengthened, summoned, sweetened, thickened, thousand, threatened, tightened, toughened, unburdened, unbuttoned, undetermined, unenlightened, unmentioned, unquestioned, unsanctioned, upland, vacationed, weakened, widened, wizened, worsened. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-n-n-o-p-u" | |
-2 letters: depone, donnee, neoned, opened, penned, punned, undone, unopen. | |
-3 letters: donee, donne, endue, epode, penne, pound, undee, unpen, upend. | |
-4 letters: deep, dene, done, dope, dune, dupe, need, neep, nene, neon, node, none, nope, noun, nude, oped, open, peed, peen, pend, peon, pond, pone, unde, undo, updo, upon. | |
-5 letters: dee, den, doe, don, due, dun, duo. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-n-n-o-p-u" | |
+2 letters: tenpounder. | |
+3 letters: tenpounders. | |
+4 letters: preannounced, unchaperoned. | |
+5 letters: equiponderant, pendulousness, pneumonitides, ponderousness, uncompensated, underexposing. | |
| 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 6F 70 65 6E 65 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -. --- .--. . -. . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01101110 01101111 01110000 01100101 01101110 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U n o p e n e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 006E 006F 0070 0065 006E 0065 0064 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5580818271807170 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Fiction 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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