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Unread vs Unred - What's the difference?

unread | unred |

As adjectives the difference between unread and unred

is that unread is not having been read while unred is not red.

As a noun unread

is bad advice or counsel.

unread

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) unred, .

Noun

(-)
  • (archaic) Bad advice or counsel.

    • Etymology 2

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Not having been read.
    • The book I got for my 18th birthday remained unread until my retirement.
  • Not having read; uneducated.

    • Anagrams

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    unred

    English

    Etymology 1

    Adjective

  • (uncommon) Not red.
  • * 2003 , M. Estep, A Theory of Immediate Awareness: Self-Organization and Adaptation in Natural Intelligence , Springer, ISBN 1402011865, page 98
    • Nothing can be red and unred all over at the same time for the same viewer.

    Etymology 2

    , past tense and past participle of rede.

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Not told.
  • * 1596 (2010) , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, The Complete Poetical Works , Book IV, Canto XII, line 16, Bartleby
    • Then blame me not, if I have err’d in count / Of gods, of nymphs, of rivers yet unred :