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unresolved

unresolved adjective: for which no solution has been found. Also the simple past and past participle of unresolve.

Adjective

unresolved (comparative more unresolved, superlative most unresolved)

  1. For which no solution has been found.
    • If the Chairman has been convinced of all this why is the matter still unresolved?1961 July, “Editorial: Sir Brian begs the questions”, in Trains Illustrated, page 386
    • Ultimately, Furst suggests that each generation is condemned to live out its parents’ unresolved stories, over and over, fuguelike.2007 October 21, Field Maloney, “Here in Dinkytown”, in The New York Times
  2. Not yet processed or resolved.
    • unresolved trauma
    • The psychotherapist encouraged patients to describe their unresolved emotional problems.
  3. Not determined; unfixed in one's purpose.

Also used as

unresolved is also the simple past and past participle of unresolve.

unresolved meaning in Marathi, Bengali, Telugu and Gujarati

unresolved in Marathi

निराकरण न झालेले, निराकरण न झालेली, तोडगा न निघालेला

unresolved in Bengali

অমীমাংসিতভাবে

unresolved in Telugu

పరిష్కారం లేనిది

unresolved in Gujarati

વણઉકેલાયેલી, વણઉકેલાયેલી છે

Examples of unresolved in a sentence

  • Questions of legal culpability remain unresolved.
  • In all instances, a possible unresolved conflict exists between the pitier and the pitied.
  • Stolest creptst may represent unresolved alternatives in the author’s manuscript, and durst dare is redundant.

All 24 example sentences with unresolved

Forms of unresolved

comparativemore unresolved
superlativemost unresolved

Origin of unresolved

From un- + resolved.

Words formed from unresolved

Questions about unresolved

What does unresolved mean?
Unresolved means for which no solution has been found.
What is unresolved in Marathi?
Unresolved in Marathi is निराकरण न झालेले, निराकरण न झालेली, तोडगा न निघालेला. See Unresolved meaning in Marathi.
What part of speech is unresolved?
Unresolved is an adjective.

Words near unresolved in the dictionary

  1. unresolvability
  2. unresolvable
  3. unresolvables
  4. unresolvably
  5. unresolve
  6. unresolved
  7. unresolvedly
  8. unresolvedness
  9. unresolves
  10. unresolving
  11. unresonable

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unresolved (page history and authors); unresolved (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); unresolved (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); unresolved (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); unresolved (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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