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Written vs Unwritten - What's the difference?

written | unwritten |

As adjectives the difference between written and unwritten

is that written is of, relating or characteristic of writing (ie, of that which has been written) while unwritten is not written.

As verbs the difference between written and unwritten

is that written is while unwritten is .

written

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of, relating or characteristic of writing (i.e., of that which has been written)
    • I can speak Japanese fairly well, but I have no understanding whatsoever of written Japanese.
  • That was written.

    • Derived terms

    * unwritten, writtenness, unwrittenness

    Quotations

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    Antonyms

    * oral * verbal

    Derived terms

    * hand-written

    Verb

    (head)
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    • , magazine=(American Scientist), title= The Evolution of Eyeglasses , passage=The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,

    Statistics

    * English adjectives ending in -en

    unwritten

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • Not written.
  • Oral or otherwise communicated without writing.
  • Implicit or understood but not formally articulated.
    • It's an unwritten rule that you lock the gate when you leave the swimming pool.
  • Containing no writing; blank.
    • unwritten paper

    Verb

    (head)

    • See also

    * unwrittenness * written * de facto * oral English adjectives ending in -en