UNREAD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unread mean? 

• UNREAD (adjective)
  The adjective UNREAD has 1 sense:

1. not informed through reading

  Familiarity information: UNREAD used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNREAD (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not informed through reading

Context example:

he seems to have been wholly unread in political theory

Similar:

uninformed (not informed; lacking in knowledge or information)

 Context examples 

There had been no understanding the book, and he had returned it unread.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

In her earnest meditations on the contents of the letter, on the depravity of that mind which could dictate it, and probably, on the very different mind of a very different person, who had no other connection whatever with the affair than what her heart gave him with every thing that passed, Elinor forgot the immediate distress of her sister, forgot that she had three letters on her lap yet unread, and so entirely forgot how long she had been in the room, that when on hearing a carriage drive up to the door, she went to the window to see who could be coming so unreasonably early, she was all astonishment to perceive Mrs. Jennings's chariot, which she knew had not been ordered till one.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)