unpunctuated
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- adjective
- /ʌnˈpʌŋkʧuˌeɪtɪd/
:
sin puntuación
- He struggled to read the letter because it was entirely unpunctuated and ran on without breaks.
Examples
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Although it evokes a circular movement, the sentence presents itself as a linear juxtaposition of words, as a uniform, unpunctuated row of capital letters.
Academic text (1999) -
No analphabetic, unpunctuated, or ignorant student is likely to bud spontaneously into an eloquent and incisive Rousseau.
Academic text (1996) -
The teacher handed back the essay filled with long, unpunctuated sentences that made it hard to understand.
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The poem was written in an unpunctuated style that challenged readers to find their own rhythm.
Surface Forms
Morphology
unpunctuated = punctuated (transparent) = un + punctuate + ed
Formed by adding the productive prefix 'un-' to the participial/adjectival 'punctuated' (itself 'punctuate' + '-ed'), yielding the straightforward negative meaning 'not punctuated'.
Etymology
The word unpunctuated begins with un- meaning 'not' and uses punct from a word for 'point' or 'dot', the small marks we use as periods and commas. So unpunctuated writing is 'not' marked with those punctuation points and can be hard to read.