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unpurchased

unpurchased

1 4.8
Not bought by anyone
  • adjective
  • /ʌnˈpɜrʧəst/
translation icon : no vendido
  • After the sale, many unpurchased items were marked down to attract more customers.

Examples

  • CUB does not send records for unpurchased titles for authority control.

    Academic text (2013)

  • I would give up my unpurchased bra holster in a heartbeat.

    Blog text (8)

  • But even then, people will just pick the book up in bookstores, flip through to the sex scenes, and then set the book back down, unpurchased.

    Blog text (20)

  • It's great if they were to tell you which links are good or bad, but we have a lot of unpurchased links that look perfectly legitimate, or which are questionable, but are they hurting or helping us?

    Blog text (11)

  • GaladrielBlaze goads Miley to chase her out of the store, at which point we learn that Miley has an unpurchased CD in her bag.

    Blog text (2)

  • The store had to clear its inventory of unpurchased merchandise at the end of the season.

  • Despite the clearance events, several unpurchased products remained on the shelves.

Synonyms

unsold
vsunpurchased
10 1.4

Not bought by anyone yet

is about items nobody has paid for to become their possession
untraded
vsunpurchased
6.5

A thing that people do not buy or sell because there is no market for it

focuses narrowly on items not paid for by a buyer

Surface Forms

unpurchased positive

Morphology

unpurchased = purchased (transparent) = un + purchase + ed

A productive negative prefix 'un-' is attached to the participial adjective 'purchased' giving the straightforward meaning 'not bought'.

Etymology

The word unpurchased is made from the prefix un- meaning 'not' and the common word purchase meaning 'to buy', so unpurchased simply means 'not bought'.