unsolved

adjective

un·​solved ˌən-ˈsälvd 

-ˈsȯlvd

: not explained, corrected, or dealt with : not solved

an unsolved problem

unsolved math equations

Examples of unsolved in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The pain of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is personalized in Jason Osder and William Lafi Youmans’ straightforward documentary about a murder that remains unsolved 41 years later. — Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2026

But Pender cautioned that solving one decades-old murder through DNA does not mean investigators can simply run every unsolved killing potentially connected to Bundy through a database. — Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 29 Oct. 2026

What happened to them, and why Jonah remains obsessed with this one unsolved case, are details that get slowly dripped out, like in every other sad-dad detective show that stretches a movie-length premise over 10 hourlong episodes. — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 29 Oct. 2026

There were no eyewitnesses to Htoo’s killing, and the case went unsolved for several years. — Kansas City Star, 28 Oct. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1665, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for unsolved

• redissolved
• undissolved
• uninvolved
• unresolved
• absolved
• devolved
• dissolved
• evolved
• involved
• resolved
• revolved
• solved