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back-burnered

back-burnered is the simple past and past participle of back-burner.

Meaning of back-burner

Adjective

back-burner (comparative more back-burner, superlative most back-burner)

  1. (idiomatic) Having low urgency; not currently important.

Questions about back-burnered

What is back-burnered the simple past and past participle of?
Back-burnered is the simple past and past participle of back-burner.

Words near back-burnered in the dictionary

  1. back-building
  2. back-builds
  3. back-built
  4. back-burn
  5. back-burner
  6. back-burnered
  7. back-burnering
  8. back-burners
  9. back-burns
  10. back-butt
  11. back-butter

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Adapted from Wiktionary: back-burnered (page history and authors); back-burner (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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