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The answer UNPAIRED has 4 possible clue(s) in existing crosswords.
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Definitions of unpaired in various dictionaries:
adj - of the remaining member of a pair, of socks e.g.
verb - to arrange in sets of two
UNPAIRED - An unpaired word is one that, according to the usual rules of the language, would appear to have a related word but does not. Such words usually have...
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| Possible Crossword Clues |
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| Odd, as a sock |
| A foreign president made it known one doesn't have a partner |
| The two in the centre fold, nude, are single |
| Free, again, to enter, not having a partner |
| Last Seen in these Crosswords & Puzzles |
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| Nov 6 2017 Irish Times (Crosaire) |
| Nov 19 2010 L.A. Times Daily |
| Dec 14 2008 The Telegraph - Cryptic |
| Mar 16 2003 The Telegraph - Cryptic |
| Unpaired description |
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An unpaired word is one that, according to the usual rules of the language, would appear to have a related word but does not. Such words usually have a prefix or suffix that would imply that there is an antonym, with the prefix or suffix being absent or opposite. * Unpaired words can be the result of one of the words falling out of popular usage, or can be created when only one word of a pair is borrowed from another language, in either case yielding an accidental gap, specifically a morphological gap. Other unpaired words were never part of a pair; their starting or ending phonemes, by accident, happen to match those of an existing morpheme, leading to a reinterpretation. * The classification of a word as "unpaired" can be problematic, as a word thought to be unattested might reappear in real-world usage or be created, for example, through humorous back-formation. In some cases a paired word does exist, but is quite rare or archaic (no longer in general use). * Such words – and particularly the back-formations, used as nonce words – find occasional use in wordplay, particularly light verse. There are a handful of notable examples in modern English.* |