unwritten
not actually formulated or expressed; customary; traditional.
not written; not put in writing or print; oral: an unwritten agreement.
containing no writing; blank.
Origin of unwritten
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Opposites for unwritten
1 | specified, stipulated, designated |
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How to use unwritten in a sentence
They angst over romance, use and sell illegal substances, and struggle with the school’s complex and all-important social life and its unwritten hierarchies.
At a Chicago high school, helping refugee students navigate American life | Martha Toll | August 27, 2021 | Washington PostThe alliance, formed and honed across roughly the past month, remains unwritten.
It’s not clear what the Big Ten, ACC and Pac-12 are doing, but they’re doing it together | Chuck Culpepper | August 24, 2021 | Washington PostFor example, confusion over unwritten rules can be an issue for autistic people.
Atypical Fell Short as Both Autistic Representation and Entertainment. At Least It Was Eclipsed During Its Own Time | Sarah Kurchak | July 16, 2021 | TimeAs one of the “new” people, many have come up to me to tell me about the rules — including those that are unwritten — that govern this prison, or to explain how the prison works.
There are hints that this unwritten rule started to be more stringently enforced around the turn of the millennium.
A president can do it, indulging his whims through unwritten laws and executive action.
Valerie Jarrett, Obama Consigliere—and Democracy Killer | James Poulos | November 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTSince 2007, Maulvi Nazir and the Pakistani military had kept to an unwritten truce.
Obama’s Deadly Informants: The Drone Spotters of Pakistan | Umar Farooq, Syed Fakhar Kakakhel | November 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThat's precisely the unwritten policy every gay player has adhered to in the history of the NFL.
And what is left is all the books and articles unwritten, the conversations left unspoken.
He chose an unlikely and pretty much unwritten-about place, the dry, flat expanses of eastern Montana.
Book Bag: Paul Theroux’s Favorite Inner-Journey Travel Books | Paul Theroux | May 14, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTIt is much to be regretted that we are thus deprived of that unwritten chapter of her life.
Madame Roland, Makers of History | John S. C. AbbottThe baby ably impersonates Society with all its sentiments and laws, written and unwritten.
The Daughters of Danaus | Mona CairdBoth Indians and white men respected the unwritten law which held the theft of food in such a region to be worthy of death.
Gold-Seeking on the Dalton Trail | Arthur R. ThompsonBut an unreliable boy at our school matched this history from the unwritten archives of his vulgar relatives.
Papers from Overlook-House | Casper AlmoreIt is the unwritten law of all our public life, and the same holds true of America, that an honest open scandal ends a career.
The New Machiavelli | Herbert George Wells
British Dictionary definitions for unwritten
/ (ʌnˈrɪtən) /
not printed or in writing
effective only through custom; traditional
without writing upon it
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