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Past tense of unread

irregular verb

The past tense of unread is unread. The past participle is also unread.

Forms of unread

Base form (V1)unread /ˈʌn.ɹɛd/
Past tense (V2)unread /ˈʌn.ɹɛd/
Past participle (V3)unread /ˈʌn.ɹɛd/
Present participleunreading
Third person singularunreads

Meaning of unread

  1. adjective Not having been read.
  2. adjective Not having read; uneducated.
  3. verb To undo the process of reading.

Full definition of unread

Verbs like unread

Questions about the past tense of unread

What is the past tense of unread?
The past tense of unread is unread.
What is the past participle of unread?
The past participle of unread is unread.
Is unread a regular or irregular verb?
Unread is an irregular verb: its past tense keeps the same form as the base form.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unread (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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