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Wrote vs Written - What's the difference?

wrote | written |

As verbs the difference between wrote and written

is that wrote is simple past of write while written is past participle of lang=en.

As an adjective written is

of, relating or characteristic of writing (i.e., of that which has been written.

wrote

English

Verb

(head)
  • (write)
    • We all wrote down the instructions.

    Derived terms

    * that's all she wrote

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    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

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    Antonyms

    * oral * verbal

    Derived terms

    * hand-written

    Verb

    (head)
  • *{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author=(Henry Petroski)
    • , 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,

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    * English adjectives ending in -en