| a. | 1. | Not written; not reduced to writing; oral; | |||||||||
| 2. | Containing no writing; blank;
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| Adj. | 1. | unwritten - based on custom rather than documentation; "an unwritten law"; "rites...so ancient that they well might have had their unwritten origins in Aurignacian times"- J.L.T.C.Spence Antonyms: written - systematically collected and written down; "written laws" |
| 2. | unwritten - using speech rather than writing; "an oral tradition"; "an oral agreement" Synonyms: oral | |
| 3. | unwritten - said or done without having been planned or written in advance; "he made a few ad-lib remarks" Synonyms: ad-lib, spontaneous |
LAW, UNWRITTEN, or lex non scripta. All the laws which do not come under the definition of written law; it is composed, principally, of the law of nature, the law of nations, the common law, and customs.
acknowledged, admitted, articulated, conventional, customary, enunciated, established, fixed, folk, hallowed, handed down, heroic, hoary, immemorial, inveterate, legendary, lingual, linguistic, long-established, long-standing, mythological, nuncupative, of long standing, of the folk, oral, parol, prescriptive, pronounced, received, recognized, rooted, said, silent, sounded, speech, spoken, time-honored, traditional, tried and true, true-blue, undeclared, understood, unexpressed, unmentioned, unproclaimed, unpronounced, unpublished, unrecorded, unsaid, unspoken, unsung, untalked-of, untold, unuttered, unvoiced, uttered, venerable, verbal, viva voce, vocal, vocalized, voiced, voiceful, word-of-mouth, wordless, worshipful