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unwritten
adjective
(un-writ-ten)
using speech rather than writing
Synonyms:
oral
,
unwritten
adjective
(un-writ-ten)
said or done without having been planned or written in advance
Synonyms:
ad-lib,
spontaneous
,
unwritten
adjective
(un-writ-ten)
based on custom rather than documentation
Antonyms:
written
,
Examples:
An unwritten law.
Rites...so ancient that they well might have had their unwritten origins in Aurignacian times.
Words Related to
unwritten
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oral
,
unscripted
,
spontaneous
,
spoken
,
ad-lib
,
common-law
,
unspoken
,
tacit
,
implicit
,
written
,
silent
,
acquiescence
,
verbal
,
implied
,
underlying
,
verbale
,
immutable
,
inviolate
,
inviolable
,
sacrosanct
,
unstated
,
ambiguous
,
enforceable
,
unenforceable
,
taboo
,
unbreakable
,
unchanging
,
secret
,
unalterable
,
unacknowledged
,
contractual
,
abiding
,
levitical
,
ironclad
,
exclusionary
,
unenforced
,
arcane
,
extant
,
archaic
,
hippocratic
,
vague
,
strict
,
unambiguous
,
undebatable
,
anachronistic
,
invariable
,
casteless
,
binding
,
hieroglyphic
,
unchangeable
,
unbendable
,
unratified
,
cabalistic
,
unexceptionable
,
explicit
,
rigid
,
undefined
,
subservient
,
grammatication
,
unchallengeable
,
benthamite
,
overarching
,
deontological
,
exclusionist
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inalterable
,
universalistic
,
consociational
,
inerrant
,
coextensive
,
informal
,
anathema
,
unverbalized
,
originalist
,
clubbish
,
inflexible
,
prenuptial
,
purdah
,
autarchic
,
ingrained
,
antinomian
,
unvarying
,
fortiori
,
longstanding
,
patriarchal
,
unsaid
,
overriding
,
sumptuary
,
nietzschean
,
contrary
,
roman law
,
revocable
,
sacred
,
chivalric
,
egalitarian
,
unvoiced
,
hermeneutical
,
indivisible
,
overdetermined
,
unpublished
,
circumscribed
,
unwritten
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