unabridged

[uhn-uh-brijd]

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adjective

not abridged or shortened, as a book.

noun

a dictionary that has not been reduced in size by omission of terms or definitions; the most comprehensive edition of a given dictionary.

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Origin:
1590–1600; un-¹ + abridged

Synonyms
1. entire, complete, uncut, uncondensed.

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unabridged (ˌʌnəˈbrɪdʒd)

—*adj*
	(of a book, speech, etc) not reduced in length by condensing

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unabridged

1599, from un- (1) "not" + pp. of abridge. Since 19c. chiefly in ref. to literary works.

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"A very simple and useful device is to have a memorandum-book, so small that it can be easily carried in the pocket, to be used instead of your mind to keep note of any errand or any appointment that you may have. The Standard Diary, less than four inches long and less than two and a half inches wide, is one of the best for this purpose. ...In fact, such diaries as these, in their wide range of information, would seem to be all that one needs in practical life, the only other book that at all approaches them in this respect being unquestionably Webster's Unabridged Dictionary."

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