Word family noun the open opener opening openness adjective open opening unopened verb open adverb openly
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishunopenedun‧o‧pened /ʌnˈəʊpənd $ -ˈoʊ-/ adjective an unopened package, letter etc has not been opened yet The letter was returned to us unopened.Examples from the Corpus
unopened• I shall burn the packet unopened.• There were some faded letters but she wasn't interested in those and shoved them back in the tin, unopened.• Things, however, have turned out slightly differently and the books have remained largely unopened.• I gaze at the unopened books with dead eyes, and the pack of cards is as uninviting as yesterday's milk.• Row after row of unopened boxes are neatly arranged on bookshelves.• Four pilots, each holding an unopened can of beer, marched around the bunker.• In a search of the offices, police found a second letter bomb among the unopened mail.• A cellophane-wrapped, unopened perfume box is on one table, surrounded by uneven stacks of papers. 