written

Definition of written

Pronunciation

• SAMPA: {{{1}}}
• IPA: /'rɪtn̩/
• Audio (US) ^[?]
• Rhymes: -ɪtən
• Hyphenation: writ‧ten

Adjective

written (comparative more written, superlative most written)

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.

Quotations

• 1978, Jacques Derrida, Alan Bass, Writing and Difference, page 62:
  It is more written than said
• 1991, Jay Clayton, Eric Rothstein, Influence and Intertextuality in Literary History‎, page 109:
  ... although certainly more written than oral, are radically implicated in orality because of their performative nature and susceptibility to "mouvance"
• 1994, Marvin L. Kalb, The Nixon Memo: Political Respectability, Russia, and the Press‎, page 68:
  Strmecki reworked the draft, making it seem "more written than spoken."
• 1996, Richard M. Swiderski, The Metamorphosis of English: Versions of Other Languages‎, page 83:
  The Chinese is more written than the English in that the writing is more removed from speech than the phonetic English.
• 1998, Ilana Snyder, Michael Joyce, Page to Screen: Taking Literacy Into the Electronic Era‎, page 96:
  Yates concludes that in terms of lexical density, 'CMC users package information in text in ways that are more written than speech-like'
• 1998, Charles Bernstein, Close Listening: Poetry and the Performed Word‎, page 211:
  printed in caps to suggest that the whole performance be thought of as one gigantic sentence. If Silliman's talk is more written than spoken, ...
• 2003, Roger Ebert, Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2004‎, page 71:
  Even insults, when they are traded, seem more written than felt.

Antonyms

• oral
• verbal

Derived terms

• hand-written

Verb

written

1. Past participle of write.
   
   Has your girlfriend written you a letter yet?