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unpurchased

unpurchased adjective: not purchased by anybody; unsold.

Adjective

unpurchased (not comparable)

  1. Not purchased by anybody; unsold.
    • The unpurchased books were pulped.
    • There breathes no being but has some pretence / To that fine instinct called poetic sense; […] / The freeman, casting with unpurchased hand / The vote that shakes the turrets of the land.1836, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., “Poetry: A Metrical Essay”, republished in The Poems of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, 1862, OCLC 5091562, pages 7–8
    Synonyms:
    nonpurchased

Synonyms of unpurchased

Origin of unpurchased

From un- + purchased.

Questions about unpurchased

What does unpurchased mean?
Unpurchased means not purchased by anybody; unsold.
What part of speech is unpurchased?
Unpurchased is an adjective.

Words near unpurchased in the dictionary

  1. unpunk
  2. unpupylated
  3. unpurchasability
  4. unpurchasable
  5. unpurchaseable
  6. unpurchased
  7. unpure
  8. unpureed
  9. unpurely
  10. unpureness
  11. unpurenesses

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