unpublished
/ʌnˈpʌblɪʃt
/adjective
1(Of a piece of writing or music) not issued in print for public sale or consumption: the archive contains much unpublished material...
- Eventually he ascertained that most of the music was unpublished and still awaiting public discovery.
- Unlike her more famous brother Felix, much of her music is unpublished, yet her output was extensive.
- Each has a library of scores and sound recordings of published and unpublished music supplied by the composers for other musicians' use.
1.1(Of an author) having no writings issued in print: a teacher and unpublished poet...
- There's no greater feeling for a neophyte author than having an unpublished writer look up to you as a mentor.
- I personally hope that Belle is Belle, whoever that may be, and that she is a previously unpublished author set to take the publishing world by storm.
- She might guess at my eagerness, but then, that's practically a hallmark of unpublished authors.
Derivatives
unpublishable
- Some Singaporeans, emboldened by the drive for feedback, seem to be taking the government at its word with a temerity that would have been unthinkable - and unpublishable - in the past.
- He wrote his first book when he was 37 or 38, but he'd spent 16 years struggling to write a book that was unpublishable, and only in the last ten years of his life was devoted to writing.
- The shadow of violence in her work, her refusal to sweeten any pills, her relish in bad behaviour masquerading as stern moralising - her modern equivalent would be unpublishable today.