written

Of, relating, or characteristic of writing (i.e., of that which has been written).

Adjective

  1. Of, relating, or characteristic of writing (i.e., of that which has been written).
    • Written language is a way of representing spoken language.

    Antonyms: oral verbal

  2. Having been written.
    • I can speak Japanese fairly well, but I have no understanding whatsoever of written Japanese.

    Antonyms: unwritten

Origin

Morphologically write + -en.

Derived

above-written bewritten could be written on the back of a postage stamp custom-written hand-written have one's name written all over history is written by the victors unwrittenness written all over it written all over someone's face written in blood written in someone's face written in stone written in the stars writtenness written out written record written statement of employment

Verb

  1. past participle of write
    • Has your girlfriend written you a letter yet?
    • The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,[…]. Scribes, illuminators, and scholars held such...