unreleased

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ released.

Adjective

unreleased (not comparable)

1. Not released.

   Fans were soon sharing the band's unreleased songs on the Internet.

   • 1982 February 13, Michael Bronski, “Boys from Catholic School”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 29, page 7:

     The school run by self-discipline and repression is a whited sepulcher festering with unreleased sexuality.

   • 2023 December 4, Ramishah Maruf, “GTA 6 leak: ‘Grand Theft Auto’ trailer reveals game’s release date”, in CNN‎:

     In 2022, hackers leaked unreleased footage from its next iteration of GTA.

2. (linguistics, phonology) Of a stop consonant, remaining occluded when spoken.
   • 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 10:

     Phonetically, in Malay, initial /t/ and /p/ are never aspirated; only /p, b, t, d, k, g/ occur as final stops and are usually unreleased and unaspirated[.]

Anagrams

• underlease, unresealed