Written

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈrɪtnÌ©/
• Rhymes: -ɪtÉ™n
• Hyphenation: writ + ten

Full definition of written

Adjective

1. Of, relating or characteristic of writing (i.e., of that which has been written)I can speak Japanese fairly well, but I have no understanding whatsoever of written Japanese.
2. That was written.

Derived terms

• unwritten, writtenness, unwrittenness

Antonyms

• oral
• verbal

Derived terms

• hand-written

Verb

1. Past participle of write
   Has your girlfriend written you a letter yet?
• 2013, Henry Petroski, The Evolution of Eyeglasses, 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 stones directly over manuscript pages as an aid in seeing what was being written, drawn, or read.