Word.ws English Dictionary

unprint

unprint verb: hypothetically, to undo the printing of.

Verb

unprint (third-person singular simple present unprints, present participle unprinting, simple past and past participle unprinted)

  1. (transitive) Hypothetically, to undo the printing of.
    • We oppose erasure legislation as it has been presented to date on the simple, basic grounds that it is impossible to "unprint" a news story which has been printed; […]1965, Journal of the Assembly, Legislature of the State of California, page 36

Forms of unprint

third-person singular presentunprints
present participleunprinting
past participleunprinted
pastunprinted

Origin of unprint

From un- + print.

Questions about unprint

What does unprint mean?
Unprint means hypothetically, to undo the printing of.
What part of speech is unprint?
Unprint is a verb.
What is the past tense of unprint?
The past tense of unprint is unprinted.

Words near unprint in the dictionary

  1. unprincipled
  2. unprincipledly
  3. unprincipledness
  4. unprinciples
  5. unprincipling
  6. unprint
  7. unprintability
  8. unprintable
  9. unprintableness
  10. unprintables
  11. unprintably

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: unprint (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “unprint.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/unprint. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.