different between unread vs untread

English

Etymology

un- +? read

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??n.??d/ (adjective)
• (adjective)
• Rhymes: -?d

Adjective

unread (not comparable)

1. Not having been read.
   • 1700, Charles Hopkins, The Art of Love, (after Ovid’s Ars Amatoria), London: Joseph Wild, “The Muse,” p. 36,^[1]

     At first, perhaps, unread your Note’s return’d,

     Your Person slighted, and your Passion scorn’d.

   • 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green & Co., “Remarkable Incident of Doctor Lanyon,” pp. 59-60,^[2]

     ‘PRIVATE: for the hands of J. G. Utterson ALONE and in case of his predecease to be destroyed unread,’ so it was emphatically superscribed; and the lawyer dreaded to behold the contents.

   The book I got for my 18th birthday remained unread until my retirement.

2. Not having read; uneducated.
   • c. 1601, William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, Act I, Scene 3,^[3]

     In fortune’s love […] the bold and coward,

     The wise and fool, the artist and unread,

     The hard and soft seem all affined and kin:

     But, in the wind and tempest of her frown,

     Distinction, with a broad and powerful fan,

     Puffing at all, winnows the light away;

   • 1796, Elizabeth Inchbald, Nature and Art, Dublin: P. Wogan et al., Chapter 22, p. 111,^[4]

     The only child of two doating parents, she never had been taught the necessity of resignation—untutored, unread, unused to reflect, but knowing how to feel […]

   • 1890, Frances Willard, Address before the Seventeenth Convention of the World Woman’s Christian Temperance Union at Atlanta, Georgia, in William Jennings Bryan (editor), The World’s Famous Orations, New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1906, Volume 10, p. 162,^[5]

     […] only those unread in the biography of genius imagine themselves to be original.

Translations

Verb

unread (third-person singular simple present unreads, present participle unreading, simple past and past participle unread)

1. (transitive) To undo the process of reading.

   That book was terrible! I wish I could unread it.

2. (computing, transitive) To flag (a previously read e-mail or similar message) as not having been read.

Anagrams

• Renaud, Urenda, dauner, endura, neurad, undear

English

Etymology

un- +? tread

Verb

untread (third-person singular simple present untreads, present participle untreading, simple past and past participle untrod)

1. (transitive) To retread (one's steps) in the opposite direction; to walk back.

Anagrams

• daunter, natured, unarted, unrated, untared