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unnumbered

unnumbered

1 3.9
Without any number on it
  • adjective
  • /ʌnˈnʌmbərd/
translation icon : sin número
  • The first few pages of the book are unnumbered, which makes it difficult to find specific sections.
  • unnumbered pages

Examples

  • Although the pages on which the poem appears are unnumbered, the work occurs near the end of the manuscript volume.

    Fiction book (1996)
  • The pages floating randomly, unnumbered, she couldn't bear to think of this pale disaster in light of the images they bore of soldiers' obedient braveries.

    Fiction book (1999)
  • The first section of the manuscript, the Synopsis and Introduction, should be unnumbered.

    Academic text (1993)
  • Pages in the letters section of Nevins's James Truslow Adams: Historian of the American Dream are unnumbered.

    Academic text (2014)
  • In particular, chapter IX is divided into two parts by a section, unnumbered, entitled "As imagens do horror," and comprises nineteen photographs with accompanying captions.

    Academic text (2017)
  • Stradanus then designed forty-three new hunting scenes for engraving by Galle; these appeared in an unnumbered set in 1578 and in a numbered one in 1580.

    Academic text (1996)
  • "Two unnumbered packets contain 'Favela Esqueleto circa 1964' and 'Favela Rocinha circa 1960.'"

    Academic text (1997)
  • Each chapter begins with an unnumbered title page that sets the theme for the upcoming text.

  • The unnumbered documents were placed before the official reports, making them hard to locate.

Synonyms

unmarked
vsunnumbered
43 4.3

Having no mark or label to show who it belongs to

means not given a number rather than lacking all marks
unlabeled
vsunnumbered
  • US
1 4.4

Not having a label or tag

is about missing a numeric identifier rather than a label
untagged
vsunnumbered
1 4.2

Without a label or identifying mark attached

refers to absence of a number as the identifying mark

Antonyms

23 2.2

Marked so you can tell its place in a list or identify it

Surface Forms

unnumbered positive

Morphology

unnumbered = numbered (transparent) = un + number + ed

'unnumbered' is the direct negative of 'numbered', clear and regular.

Etymology

Unnumbered comes from the prefix un- 'not' and number 'a number' or 'to count'. That's why unnumbered can mean 'not marked with a number', for example pages or tickets that have no number printed on them.