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English

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Etymology

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Morphologicallywrite +‎-en.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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written (notcomparable)

  1. Of, relating, or characteristic ofwriting (i.e., of that which has beenwritten).
    Antonyms:oral,verbal
    Written language is a way of representing spoken language.
  2. Having been written.
    Antonym:unwritten
    I can speak Japanese fairly well, but I have no understanding whatsoever ofwritten Japanese.

Quotations

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  • 1978,Jacques Derrida with Alan Bass,Writing and Difference, page62:
    It is morewritten than said
  • 1991, Jay Clayton with Eric Rothstein,Influence and Intertextuality in Literary History, page109:
    ... although certainly morewritten than oral, are radically implicated in orality because of their performative nature and susceptibility to "mouvance"
  • 1994,Marvin L. Kalb,The Nixon Memo: Political Respectability, Russia, and the Press, page68:
    Strmecki reworked the draft, making it seem "morewritten than spoken."
  • 1996, Richard M. Swiderski,The Metamorphosis of English: Versions of Other Languages, page83:
    The Chinese is morewritten than the English in that the writing is more removed from speech than the phonetic English.
  • 1998, Ilana Snyder with Michael Joyce,Page to Screen: Taking Literacy Into the Electronic Era, page96:
    Yates concludes that in terms of lexical density, 'CMC users package information in text in ways that are morewritten than speech-like'
  • 1998, Charles Bernstein,Close Listening: Poetry and the Performed Word, page211:
    printed in caps to suggest that the whole performance be thought of as one gigantic sentence. If Silliman's talk is morewritten than spoken, ...
  • 2003,Roger Ebert,Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2004, page71:
    Even insults, when they are traded, seem morewritten than felt.

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Translations

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of, relating or characteristic of writing
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Verb

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written

  1. pastparticiple ofwrite
    Has your girlfriendwritten you a letter yet?
    • 2013 September-October,Henry Petroski, “The Evolution of Eyeglasses”, inAmerican Scientist:
      The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,[…]. Scribes, illuminators, and scholars held such stones directly over manuscript pages as an aid in seeing what was beingwritten, drawn, or read.

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