What does unread mean?
Definitions for unread
ʌnˈrɛdun·read
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Princeton's WordNet
unreadadjective
not informed through reading
"he seems to have been wholly unread in political theory"- V.L.Parrington
Wiktionary
unreadadjective
Not having been read.
The book I got for my 18th birthday remained unread until my retirement.
unreadadjective
Not having read; uneducated.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
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
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
Unreadadjective
not read or perused; as, an unread book
Unreadadjective
not versed in literature; illiterate
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
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.
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endura
neurad
undear
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of unread in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of unread in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
Examples of unread in a Sentence
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.
It's unread in my inbox.
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.
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.
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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