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unhyphenated

unhyphenated is the simple past and past participle of unhyphenate.

Adjective

unhyphenated (not comparable)

  1. Lacking a hyphen.
    • The word cooperation is unhyphenated, though some also spell it as co-operation.
  2. (Canada, US) Of people, belonging to a single ethnicity or nationality.
    • ... when we shall recognize in our press and at the ballot box no votes but American votes, and no citizens but simply unhyphenated American citizens; when we shall insist that every man who places a ballot in our ballot box shall be able to read that ballot in the language of Lincoln and Grant, we...1894, Rena Michaels Atchison, Un-American immigration: its present effects and future perils, C. H. Kerr & company, page 140
    • For Pennsylvania yields to no State in the courage and virility of her sons—plain, unhyphenated Americans, not yet pushed by invaders off the soil; loyal men, whose fathers gave their blood like water for the Union.1916, Agnes Repplier, quoted in "The Glory of Pennsylvania", American Lutheran survey, Volume 5, Lutheran Survey Pub. Co., page 78

Meaning of unhyphenate

Verb

unhyphenate (third-person singular simple present unhyphenates, present participle unhyphenating, simple past and past participle unhyphenated)

  1. (transitive) To remove or displace a hyphen from.
    • The dictionary chose to unhyphenate "cry-baby", and listed it as "crybaby".

Synonyms of unhyphenated

Antonyms

Origin of unhyphenated

From unhyphenate + -ed.

From un- + hyphenated.

Questions about unhyphenated

What does unhyphenated mean?
Unhyphenated means lacking a hyphen.
What is unhyphenated the simple past and past participle of?
Unhyphenated is the simple past and past participle of unhyphenate.
What part of speech is unhyphenated?
Unhyphenated is an adjective.

Words near unhyphenated in the dictionary

  1. unhymned
  2. unhyped
  3. unhypermethylated
  4. unhyphenatable
  5. unhyphenate
  6. unhyphenated
  7. unhyphenates
  8. unhyphenating
  9. unhyphened
  10. unhypnotic
  11. unhypnotisable

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unhyphenated (page history and authors); unhyphenate (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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