unreleased

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adjective

Not released.

“Fans were soon sharing the band's unreleased songs on the Internet.”

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Less commonScrabble 11

Meanings

adjectiveunreleased (not comparable)
  1. not comparableNot released.

    Fans were soon sharing the band's unreleased songs on the Internet.

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    The school run by self-discipline and repression is a whited sepulcher festering with unreleased sexuality.

    1982 February 13, Michael Bronski, “Boys from Catholic School”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 29, page 7

    In 2022, hackers leaked unreleased footage from its next iteration of GTA.

    2023 December 4, Ramishah Maruf, “GTA 6 leak: ‘Grand Theft Auto’ trailer reveals game’s release date”, in CNN
  2. not comparablehuman sciencesOf a stop consonant, remaining occluded when spoken.

    Phonetically, in Malay, initial /t/ and /p/ are never aspirated; only /p, b, t, d, k, g/ occur as final stops and are usually unreleased and unaspirated[.]

    2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 10

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectivenot (or not yet) made available for distribution or publication

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Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*né
  2. Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
  3. Proto-Germanic*un-
  4. Proto-West Germanic*un-
  5. Old Englishun-
  6. Middle Englishun-
  7. Englishun-
  8. Englishreleased
  9. Englishunreleased

From un- + released.

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Cite this entry
APA

unreleased. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unreleased

MLA

“unreleased.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unreleased. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unreleased,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unreleased.

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