unplayed
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- adjective
- /ʌnˈpleɪd/
:
no jugado
- The cover is listed in VG++ condition, and the record, of course, is listed in mint, unplayed condition.
- unknown and unplayed
Examples
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This tile was removed from the board and placed back in the player's pile of unplayed tiles.
Academic text (1990) -
Many of the board game pieces are still unplayed because we never got the chance to start.
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in a single turn and revealing an unplayed victory point.
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All the video games left unplayed, all the piles of trash left untucked.
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Food: None. Summary: The combination of having a terrible headache, a lot of unplayed games of Scramble with Friends, and a disappointing lack of food offerings made for a whole lot of not paying attention.
Blog text (27) -
The guitar in the attic has remained unplayed for years, collecting dust.
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Since the launch, the video game has gone unplayed by most fans due to technical issues.
Surface Forms
Morphology
unplayed = played (transparent) = un + play + ed
Clearly formed by adding the negative prefix 'un-' to the past participle 'played', yielding 'not yet played'.
Etymology
Unplayed starts with un-, like in unhappy, meaning 'not', and the part play means 'to take part in a game or to perform music'. So, unplayed means 'not played' or 'not yet played', for example a match that did not happen or a song still waiting to be heard.