Packed vs Unpacked - What's the difference?
packed | unpacked |
(pack)
Put into a package.
Filled with a large number or large quantity of something.
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, title= (colloquial) Filled to capacity with people.
Having had its packing removed.
:I worked all day and managed to get all the boxes unpacked .
Not yet packed.
:The unpacked gifts are on the table.
Not yet having had its packing removed. (Especially after still. For more on this use, see [http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002171.html])
:I left the box, still unpacked , at our old house.
As verbs the difference between packed and unpacked
is that packed is (pack) while unpacked is .As adjectives the difference between packed and unpacked
is that packed is put into a package while unpacked is having had its packing removed.packed
English
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(en adjective)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=[…] St.?Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed , crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.}}