adjective. Not written or recorded.

adjective. Having authority based on custom, tradition, or usage rather than doctrine.

adjective. Not written on; blank.

Not written; not reduced to writing; oral; traditional: as, unwritten laws; unwritten customs.

Not written upon; blank; containing no writing.

Not distinctly expressed, laid down, or formulated, but generally understood and acknowledged as binding: as, an unwritten rule; an unwritten constitution.

adjective. Not written; not reduced to writing; oral.

adjective. Containing no writing; blank.

adjective. such doctrines as have been handed down by word of mouth; oral or traditional doctrines.

adjective. That part of the law of England and of the United States which is not derived from express legislative enactment, or at least from any enactment now extant and in force as such. This law is now generally contained in the reports of judicial decisions. See Common law, under Common.

adjective. such laws as have been handed down by tradition or in song. Such were the laws of the early nations of Europe.

adjective. Spoken or otherwise communicated other than in writing.

adjective. Implicit or understood but not formally articulated.

verb. Past participle of unwrite

adjective. using speech rather than writing

adjective. said or done without having been planned or written in advance

adjective. based on custom rather than documentation

"I think it has a beautiful resolution and, unlike the case with a traditional short story, the limited word length often forces some of these elements to remain unwritten, that is, hinted at or implied in the written storyline."

de facto  unwritten law  

common law  spoken  unscripted  

Britain  Briton  Britten  Lytton  Witten  

Anglo-Irish  Arthurian  Babylonian  Elizabethan  Gaelic  

acknowledged  admitted  articulated  blank  conventional