unclosed
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.37 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
simple past and past participle of unclose
Example Sentences
- "The unclosed front door made the neighbours suspect a burglary."
- "The Web page failed validation because it had an unclosed tag."
- "...and in one of the window-seats was a volume of Sir Philip Sydney's "Arcadia:" a few myrtle leaves were scattered on the yet unclosed page, a graceful mark to find the place where the youthful reader had brooded over visions of truth and love, already vanished, like the freshness of those leaves, strewed, as if they were flung on the shroud of departed hope."
- "By 1875 the Metropolitan and the District were carrying about 100 million passengers a year on their branches and their unclosed circle."
Etymology
From un- + closed.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: un