unpublished

/ˈʌnˌpʌblɪʃt/

Unpublished means not made public. If your phone number is unpublished, it’s not listed in the telephone directory and you’re safe from late-night calls from long-lost boyfriends.

If you’re scrounging around in an old desk drawer and stumble upon an unpublished poem by Emily Dickinson, your discovery is likely to make you famous. A painting or a piece of music can also be described as unpublished if no one has written about it or put it into some kind of form available to a wider audience. If you're an aspiring author but nothing you've written has appeared in print yet, you're an unpublished author.

Definitions of unpublished

1. adjective

   not published
   “unpublished letters and diaries”

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   published

   prepared and printed for distribution and sale