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unwritten

• (a) based on custom rather than documentation
  • an unwritten law
  • "rites...so ancient that they well might have had their unwritten origins in Aurignacian times"- J.L.T.C.Spence
• (s) using speech rather than writing
  • an oral tradition
  • an oral agreement
  oral,
• (s) said or done without having been planned or written in advance
  • he made a few ad-lib remarks
  ad-lib, spontaneous,

Synonyms

oral ad-lib spontaneous

Antonyms

written

Words of close approximity