UNOPENED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unopened mean? 

• UNOPENED (adjective)
  The adjective UNOPENED has 1 sense:

1. not yet opened or unsealed

  Familiarity information: UNOPENED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNOPENED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not yet opened or unsealed

Context example:

unopened Christmas presents

Similar:

sealed (closed or secured with or as if with a seal)

 Context examples 

As I waited, I lifted the unopened newspaper from the table and glanced my eye over it.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Each closet needed but a glance, for all were empty, and all, by the dust that fell from their doors, had stood long unopened.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

He staggered into his room and sat down on the bed, the envelope still unopened, and in that moment came understanding to him how people suddenly fall dead upon receipt of extraordinarily good news.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

After she left him he sat drearily, with drooping shoulders, on the edge of the bed, gazing about him with lack-lustre eyes that saw nothing until the torn wrapper of a magazine, which had come in the morning's mail and which lay unopened, shot a gleam of light into his darkened brain.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

After a moment Tom got up and began wrapping the unopened bottle of whiskey in the towel.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)