What does unread mean?

Definitions for unread
ʌnˈrɛdun·read

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word unread.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. unreadadjective

    not informed through reading

    "he seems to have been wholly unread in political theory"- V.L.Parrington

Wiktionary

  1. unreadadjective

    Not having been read.

    The book I got for my 18th birthday remained unread until my retirement.

  2. unreadadjective

    Not having read; uneducated.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Unreadadjective

    These books are safer and better to be left publickly unread. Richard Hooker, b. v.

    His muse had starv’d, had not a piece unread,
    And by a player bought, supply’d her bread. Dryden.

    Uncertain whose the narrower span,
    The clown unread, or half-read gentleman. Dryden.

ChatGPT

  1. unread

    Unread refers to something, typically a message, document, book or email, that has not yet been read or looked at by the recipient or the intended audience. It generally indicates pending attention or response from the recipient.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Unreadadjective

    not read or perused; as, an unread book

  2. Unreadadjective

    not versed in literature; illiterate

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Unread

    un-red′, adj. not informed by reading, ignorant: not perused.—adj. Unreadable (un-rē′da-bl), indecipherable, too dull to be read.—n. Unrea′dableness.

Anagrams for unread »

  1. endura

  2. neurad

  3. undear

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of unread in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of unread in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of unread in a Sentence

  1. Ryan Quarles:

    First it was 400,000 unread emails and 120,000 people in need of unemployment checks, then it was chaos and preventable criminal acts in our juvenile justice detention centers, and now Andy's sending checks to people who weren't even close to the disaster zone in Western Kentucky.

  2. Cara Brostrom:

    It's unread in my inbox.

  3. Ursula K. Le Guin:

    The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.

  4. Anthony Burgess:

    Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room. Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted. Cunningly, Americans know that books contain a person, and they want the person, not the book.

  5. Dennis Koenig:

    Dreams are postcards from our subconscious, inner self to outer self, right brain trying to cross that moat to the left. Too often they come back unread return to sender, addressee unknown. That's a shame because it's a whole other world out there--or in here depending on your point of view.

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