written
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Adjective[edit]
written (comparative more written, superlative most written)
- Of, relating or characteristic of writing (i.e., of that which has been written)
- I can speak Japanese fairly well, but I have no understanding whatsoever of written Japanese.
- That was written.
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- 1978, Jacques Derrida; Alan Bass, Writing and Difference, page 62:
- It is more written than said
- 1991, Jay Clayton; Eric Rothstein, Influence and Intertextuality in Literary History, page 109:
- ... although certainly more written than oral, are radically implicated in orality because of their performative nature and susceptibility to "mouvance"
- 1994, Marvin L. Kalb, The Nixon Memo: Political Respectability, Russia, and the Press, page 68:
- Strmecki reworked the draft, making it seem "more written than spoken."
- 1996, Richard M. Swiderski, The Metamorphosis of English: Versions of Other Languages, page 83:
- The Chinese is more written than the English in that the writing is more removed from speech than the phonetic English.
- 1998, Ilana Snyder; Michael Joyce, Page to Screen: Taking Literacy Into the Electronic Era, page 96:
- Yates concludes that in terms of lexical density, 'CMC users package information in text in ways that are more written than speech-like'
- 1998, Charles Bernstein, Close Listening: Poetry and the Performed Word, page 211:
- printed in caps to suggest that the whole performance be thought of as one gigantic sentence. If Silliman's talk is more written than spoken, ...
- 2003, Roger Ebert, Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2004, page 71:
- Even insults, when they are traded, seem more written than felt.
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of, relating or characteristic of writing
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Verb[edit]
written
- Past participle of write
- Has your girlfriend written you a letter yet?
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Most common English words before 1923: can't · ready · ought · #443: written · arms · across · answer
