unresolved
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4.4
- adjective
- /ˌʌnrɪˈzɑlvd/
:
sin resolver
- The debate surrounding the manner in which to best train surgical residents remains unresolved.
- remain unresolved
- an unresolved issue
- an unresolved question
You're leaving us with something unresolved in almost every scene.
- You're leaving us with something unresolved in almost every scene.
- The fourth reason is due to projection of unresolved issues.
- But if you are aware of an unresolved issue, you should be working on it.
- Because when we end up in these ongoing cycles, it stems from unresolved hurt and past traumas.
- They're actually very functional, happy relationships because people are not choosing out of their unresolved childhood traumas.
- Well, what that means is if you focus on emotions, you're focusing on an area that's unresolved and has a lot of hurt.
- It posed new questions, new problems, and some of those problems are still as yet unresolved.
- But what his ceasefire maps leave unresolved will test politicians, settlers and refugees alike.
- And I'm saying from the energetic that's unresolved that that adds on to it.
- Which think about this, you, you already have this unresolved stress from this situation.
Examples
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The committee is currently addressing several unresolved issues from last year's meeting.
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Obviously, Courtney still has unresolved issues about the affair.
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So that was something that made me realize like that was unresolved pain.
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You say that the past is not the past if it's unresolved, what does that mean?
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But if you are aware of an unresolved issue, you should be working on it.
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Do you have any other unresolved relationships in your life?
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In addition, significant unresolved issues remain in the relationship between the two brothers.
Academic text (2015) -
I know there were a lot of unresolved conflicts between you and your brother.
Fiction book (1994) -
Accountability remains a critical and unresolved issue for educators and the public they serve.
Academic text (1991) -
It remains the longest unresolved refugee crisis in the world.
Synonyms
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1.0
Not decided and still possible to change
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3.8
Not explained or answered after careful study
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2.9
Not yet sure which option or side to choose
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4.7
Not yet decided or settled
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4.2
Not decided or final, for example a question, a plan
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4.6
Not yet decided or known
Not finished or decided yet
Problems that are not yet handled or fixed
Antonyms
How Resolved
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Unresolved comes from the part un- meaning 'not' and the word resolve, from an old word meaning 'loosen' or 'solve' and the same root as resolution. So an unresolved problem is one that is still 'not solved' or 'not finished'.