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unpinned

US/ˈʌnpɪnd/

unpinned is the simple past and past participle of unpin.

Meaning of unpin

Verb

unpin (third-person singular simple present unpins, present participle unpinning, simple past and past participle unpinned)

  1. (transitive) To unfasten by removing a pin.
    • Lady Bellaston answered with a smile, “Then you have seen this terrible man, madam; pray, is he so very fine a figure as he is represented? for Etoff entertained me last night almost two hours with him. The wench I believe is in love with him by reputation.” Here the reader will be apt to wonder...1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
  2. (transitive) To detach (an icon, application, etc.) from the place where it was previously pinned.
    • to unpin a program from the Taskbar
  3. (transitive) To undo the pinning or fixing of (an array in memory, a security certificate, etc.) so that it can be modified again.
    • […] you can use the GCHandle class mentioned earlier to pin a heap block until you explicitly unpin it.2012, Ian Griffiths, Programming C# 5.0, page 244
  4. (transitive) To get (a piece) out of a pin.

Adjective

unpinned (not comparable)

  1. Not pinned.
    • If unpinned specimens are to be softened for mounting, they can be placed on a small dish or bit of plastic so they do not become too wet.2014, David Rentz, A Guide to the Cockroaches of Australia, page 52

Questions about unpinned

What does unpinned mean?
Unpinned means not pinned.
What is unpinned the simple past and past participle of?
Unpinned is the simple past and past participle of unpin.
What part of speech is unpinned?
Unpinned is an adjective.
How do you pronounce unpinned?
Unpinned is pronounced /ˈʌnpɪnd/ (US).

Words near unpinned in the dictionary

  1. unpinioned
  2. unpinioning
  3. unpinions
  4. unpinked
  5. unpinnable
  6. unpinned
  7. unpinning
  8. unpinnings
  9. unpinpointable
  10. unpinpointed
  11. unpins

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unpinned (page history and authors); unpin (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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