English

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.

Derived terms

• unwritten, writtenness, unwrittenness

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

Translations

Verb

written

1. past participle of write

   Has your girlfriend written you a letter yet?‎

   • 2013 September-October, Henry Petroski, “The Evolution of Eyeglasses”, in American Scientist:

     The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone, […] . Scribes, illuminators, and scholars held such stones directly over manuscript pages as an aid in seeing what was being written, drawn, or read.

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