leave someone on read
/ɹɛd/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.00 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
18
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "My boyfriend left me on read yesterday after I asked him to send me a picture of his dog, which made me very angry!"
- "Left a nigga on read 'cause I felt like it"
- "I said, do that, do that, baby all night long/ And I'ma turn off all my phones / You know I hate it when I'm left on read / But he make it all up in the bed"
- "Usually, when you leave someone on read, it's to send the message that you're upset with them, you're over their nonsense, or you're just not that into them."
- "I'd sent both Ray and Jaz apology messages over the weekend. Ray had responded by blocking me, and Jaz had left me on “read”—not that I blamed either of them."
- "“You've left me on read since one o'clock.” This was true; she'd sent me a long string of increasingly distraught and complicated emojis that I'd flicked away to decipher later. I'm not much for hieroglyphics."