UNREAD Synonyms: 73 Similar and Opposite Words

unread

adjective

ˌən-ˈred

as in ignorant

lacking in education or the knowledge gained from books an officer who seemed to be completely unread in military theory

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Recent Examples of unread And somewhere on a beach in Indonesia, a book stayed unread a little longer than usual. —

Matthew Kayser, USA Today, 14 May 2026 Others can emerge during the long recovery afterward, when missed physical therapy appointments and unread discharge instructions slow healing. —

Nandan Lad, Time, 27 Apr. 2026 Yet during some of those years—okay, many of them—the weekly issues have piled up in my home and gone mostly unread between biannual days of bingeing and purging. —

John Williams, The Atlantic, 20 Feb. 2026 The message still shows as unread. —

Laura Turbay, Chicago Tribune, 23 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for unread

Recent Examples of Synonyms for unread

Adjective

Their earliest performances could be fun and irreverent, too, but Boy George says they were also marred by ignorant, homophobic heckling.

— Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 14 June 2026
And using both words does not reveal that a person is ignorant but rather cosmopolitan.

— Kirk Bowman, The Conversation, 4 June 2026