unclosed

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adjective

Not closed; left open.

“The Web page failed validation because it had an unclosed tag.”

UncommonScrabble 11

Meanings

unclosed1

verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of unclose

unclosed2

adjectiveunclosed (not comparable)
  1. not comparableNot closed; left open.

    The Web page failed validation because it had an unclosed tag.

    3 more examples

    The unclosed front door made the neighbours suspect a burglary.

    ...and in one of the window-seats was a volume of Sir Philip Sydney's "Arcadia:" a few myrtle leaves were scattered on the yet unclosed page, a graceful mark to find the place where the youthful reader had brooded over visions of truth and love, already vanished, like the freshness of those leaves, strewed, as if they were flung on the shroud of departed hope.

    1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Chapter XXXIV. Confidence.”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 299

    By 1875 the Metropolitan and the District were carrying about 100 million passengers a year on their branches and their unclosed circle.

    2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 64

Origin

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APA

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MLA

“unclosed.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unclosed. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unclosed,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unclosed.

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