unpublished
adj.not printed or shared with the public yet. You use this to describe books, music, or research that is still private.
adj.not yet issued in print or made available for public sale or distribution. Often refers to manuscripts, private letters, or data that remain in the author's possession.
“The author has many unpublished stories in her desk.”
“The historian discovered a collection of unpublished letters that revealed new details about the war.”
“While the scientist's main findings were widely cited, the raw data remained unpublished due to privacy concerns regarding the participants' identities.”
Typically used attributively before a noun or predicatively after a linking verb like 'remain'.
Usage unpublished study
“Most of the Japanese illustrator’s work, you guessed it, stayed unpublished and unseen in his lifetime.”
“In an unpublished letter sent to the newspaper, he cited an article from 2024 which claimed that one in 50 Albanians in the UK were in prison, the worst rate of any nationality.”