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.

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