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Antonyms for written

Grammar : Adj
Spell : rit-n
Phonetic Transcription : ˈrɪt n

Definition of written

Origin :
  • Old English writan "to score, outline, draw the figure of," later "to set down in writing" (class I strong verb; past tense wrat, past participle writen), from Proto-Germanic *writanan "tear, scratch" (cf. Old Frisian writa "to write," Old Saxon writan "to tear, scratch, write," Old Norse rita "write, scratch, outline," Old High German rizan "to write, scratch, tear," German reißen "to tear, pull, tug, sketch, draw, design"), outside connections doubtful. Words for "write" in most I.E languages originally mean "carve, scratch, cut" (cf. Latin scribere, Greek grapho, Sanskrit rikh-); a few originally meant "paint" (cf. Gothic meljan, Old Church Slavonic pisati, and most of the modern Slavic cognates).
  • For men use to write an evill turne in marble stone, but a good turne in the dust. [More, 1513]
  • To write (something) off (1680s) originally was from accounting; figurative sense is recorded from 1889. Write-in "unlisted candidate" is recorded from 1932.
  • adj composed
  • adj inscribed
Example sentences :
  • If it were not so, his hand would have written in reply to thy kind epistle.
  • Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child
  • Over the gate was written in large letters, 'The Entrance of Mortals.'
  • Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child
  • That matron, like most Grecian women, was ignorant of her own written language.
  • Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child
  • If he had been picked up by any vessel I suppose he would have written.
  • Extract from : « Brave and Bold » by Horatio Alger
  • Written years before, at the time of publication he was thirty-three.
  • Extract from : « 'Tis Sixty Years Since » by Charles Francis Adams
  • It must have been written for the occasion, for the sentiment of it was in accordance with the prayer.
  • Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 » by Various
  • I have mentioned in my letter to her that I have written to you.
  • Extract from : « Grace Harlowe's Return to Overton Campus » by Jessie Graham Flower
  • Come not near us, if you have resolve to be undutiful: but this, after what I have written, I hope you cannot be.
  • Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
  • It was awful to reflect how many sermons must have been written there.
  • Extract from : « The Old Manse (From "Mosses From An Old Manse") » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • But there was the decree, written in letters of blood and flame.
  • Extract from : « Viviette » by William J. Locke

Synonyms for written

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