unwritten

Adjective

• based on custom rather than documentation; ; - J.L.T.C.Spence
  • "an unwritten law"
  • "rites...so ancient that they well might have had their unwritten origins in Aurignacian times"

Adjective Satellite

• using speech rather than writing
• said or done without having been planned or written in advance

Adj

• Not written.
• Oral or otherwise communicated without writing.
• Implicit or understood but not formally articulated.
• Containing no writing; blank.

Verb

• past participle of unwrite

Examples

• It's an unwritten rule that you lock the gate when you leave the swimming pool.

Synonyms

ad-lib, oral, spontaneous

Antonyms

written

Related Words

de facto, oral, unwrittenness, written

Anagrams of unwritten