UNSEALED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unsealed mean? 

• UNSEALED (adjective)
  The adjective UNSEALED has 2 senses:

1. not established or confirmed

2. not closed or secured with or as if with a seal

  Familiarity information: UNSEALED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNSEALED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not established or confirmed

Synonyms:

uncertain; unsealed

Context example:

his doom is as yet unsealed

Antonym:

sealed (established irrevocably)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Not closed or secured with or as if with a seal

Context example:

the letter arrived unsealed

Similar:

open; opened (not sealed or having been unsealed)

Also:

open (affording free passage or access)

Antonym:

sealed (closed or secured with or as if with a seal)

 Context examples 

The second and fourth were unsealed.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The lawyer unsealed it, and several enclosures fell to the floor.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

A professional trained and certified in the field of medicine that utilizes the nuclear properties of radioactive and stable nuclides to make diagnostic evaluations of the anatomic or physiologic conditions of the body and to provide therapy with unsealed radioactive sources.

(Nuclear Medicine Technologist, NCI Thesaurus)