Meanings
- not comparableNot delivered.
Most undelivered mail has the wrong address.
2 more examples
[I]t is a deed of higheſt charitie to help undeceive the people, and a vvork vvorthieſt your autoritie, in all things els authors, aſſertors and novv recoverers of our libertie, to deliver us, the only people of all Proteſtants left ſtill undeliverd, from the oppreſſions of a Simonious decimating clergie; […]
1659, J[ohn] M[ilton], “To the Parlament of the Commonwealth of England with the Dominions therof”, in Considerations Touching the Likeliest Means to Remove Hirelings out of the Church. […], London: […] T[homas] N[ewcombe] for L[ivewell] Chapman […], →OCLCIt has lost its hold on the Middle Eastern market to American planes as well as to changing politics, represented by the seven Iraqi-ordered Mirage F-1s that sit undelivered in a Dassault factory.
1991 August 9, Katherine Burton, “Budget Ax Hangs Overa Diminished Dassault”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 28 May 2025
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
- Proto-Germanic*un-
- Proto-West Germanic*un-
- Old Englishun-
- Middle Englishun-
- Englishun-
- Englishdelivered
- Englishundelivered
Translations
Bulgarian недоставен
- недоставен (nedostaven)not delivered
Greek απαράδοτος
- απαράδοτος (aparádotos)not delivered
Irish gan seachadadh
- gan seachadadhnot delivered
Italian giacente, inesitato
- giacentenot delivered
- inesitatonot delivered
Cite this entry
undelivered. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/undelivered
“undelivered.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/undelivered. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “undelivered,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/undelivered.
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