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unzipped

unzipped is the simple past and past participle of unzip.

Adjective (1)

unzipped (not comparable)

  1. Not zipped (closed with a zip fastener).
    • She threw the unzipped backpack outside, and when I ran out to get it, because I was worried about my homework blowing away, she locked and bolted the door.2004 April 6, Lisa Tucker, Shout Down the Moon, Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 63
    • She sees the books from her backpack scattered around her, and suddenly she is in her father’s old bedroom again, putting her books into her backpack when her mother comes to tell her that the cousins have arrived, slinging her backpack on before it is zipped and following her downstairs, and her...2008 June 17, Elizabeth Hartley Winthrop, December, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 226
  2. Not zipped (compressed into a single and often smaller file, especially a zip file).
    • To zip a file or directory with gzip: / […] / 2. gzip zipadeedoodah.tar / Type gzip followed by the name of the file or directory to gzip. The zipped file will replace the unzipped version and will have a new .gz extension. / ✓ Tips / […] / ▪ If you want to keep a copy of the original, unzipped...2003, Deborah S. Ray, Eric J. Ray, “Chapter 13: Working with Encoded & Compressed Files”, in UNIX: Teach yourself Unix the quick and easy way! This Visual QuickStart Guide uses pictures rather than...
    • The function unzip.retrosheet unzips the file and puts the individual event files and roster files in the “unzipped” folder. The function create.csv.file(season) reads the individual team record files into R, merges the files, and writes a new single combined file in csv format in the “unzipped”...2013 October 29, Max Marchi, Jim Albert, Analyzing Baseball Data with R, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 303

Meaning of unzip

Verb

unzip (third-person singular simple present unzips, present participle unzipping, simple past and past participle unzipped)

  1. (transitive) To open something using a zipper.
    • He turned back and started unzipping a bag.2015, Chigozie Obioma, The Fishermen, ONE, page 274
  2. (intransitive) To come open by means of a zipper.
  3. (transitive) To restore (compressed data) to its original form, from a zip file.

Adjective (2)

unzipped (not comparable)

  1. Lacking a zip code.
    • New computer-driven postal machinery will speed up the processing of mail that is properly addressed with zip code, but may possibly delay mail that lacks the zip code. […] But woe betide a letter that lacks the zip code! For unzipped mail, the clerk punches a button that shunts the letter aside...1969 November, Arthur Fisher, “Science Newsfront: Last-minute news and notes to keep you up-to-date”, in Popular Science, volume 195, number 5, page 22
    Antonyms:
    zipped

Antonyms of unzipped

Origin of unzipped

From unzip + -ed.

From un- + zip + -ed.

From un- + zipped.

Questions about unzipped

What does unzipped mean?
Unzipped means not zipped (closed with a zip fastener).
What is unzipped the simple past and past participle of?
Unzipped is the simple past and past participle of unzip.
What part of speech is unzipped?
Unzipped is an adjective.

Words near unzipped in the dictionary

  1. unzealousness
  2. Unzent
  3. unzestful
  4. unzip
  5. unzippable
  6. unzipped
  7. unzipper
  8. unzippered
  9. unzippering
  10. unzippers
  11. unzipping

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unzipped (page history and authors); unzip (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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