unbound

Examples

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• Her most recent book is Biblical Women Unbound: Countertales.

  Fiction book (1998)

• Holden had intended to produce an unbound atlas of lunar photographs comprising sixty sheets or more, together with an index map.

  Academic text (2004)

• Even the potentially awkward stacks of unbound material were brought under control.

  Fiction book (1992)

• I sat there in defeat, flipping through the six unbound pages when a familiar name caught my eye.

  Harvard University

• And then he had them the the sequel sewn in together with the bound and unbound copies of the earlier Drum Taps to produce this book.

• This text is unbound, typewritten, looseleaf, and there are no page numbers, so one mishap and the whole thing is irrevocably scrambled.

  Blog text (11)

• Also produced during the electronic phase was Ms. Cassie, a work consisting of seventy-seven broadsides that were produced piecemeal and later assembled into "perhaps eight copies of the entire sequence," all of which were unbound (Howley n. pag.).

  Academic text (2013)

• Her uncle Rudy comes in, carrying under his arm a large unbound manuscript.

• The delicate, unbound parchment manuscripts in the 14th-century mosque he leads had already survived hundreds of years in the storied city of Timbuktu.

• In a room off the main parlor—a walk-in closet really—the diary sits on four shelves, reams of unbound sheets in Sphinx Business Papers boxes.

Synonyms

U

unattached

vsunbound

2 4.2

Not fixed to anything so it can move freely

means specifically books not held inside a cover

U

unfastened

vsunbound

2.4

Not tied, closed, or attached

is used for books to mean not secured within a cover

Antonyms

B

bound

9 4.6

Held together inside a cover such as leather or cloth

How Durable

hardcover

• US

34 2.3

bound

9 4.6

clothbound

1 4.4

paperback

88 1.3

unbound

1 6.4

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology