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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unsolved
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an unsolved murder (=for which the killer has never been found)
▪ Police questioned the man about two unsolved murders.
an unsolved mystery
▪ What happened to her is still an unsolved mystery.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
crime
▪ In his past, however, there is an unsolved crime that continues to torment him.
▪ They could also be temporarily stationed in villages at the expense of the inhabitants as punishment for unsolved crimes.
▪ An unsolved crime that's even inspired Inspector Morse writer Colin Dexter.
▪ So, it remains an unsolved crime.
murder
▪ It presented a far better opportunity for an unsolved murder than killing her on his own premises.
▪ Rain thought a burglary beneath the notice of men with an unsolved murder on their hands.
mystery
▪ They were part of the Cicero Club, a society which met once a month or so to discuss famous unsolved mysteries.
▪ This book collects together what I consider to be some of the major unsolved mysteries of science.
▪ What happened to this piece is still an unsolved mystery.
▪ For the time being, the Phaistos Disc remains an unsolved mystery.
▪ To this day Devon Loch's collapse remains one of the Turfs greatest unsolved mysteries.
problem
▪ There remain, at the same time, two unsolved problems which have proved detrimental to the establishment of work schemes.
▪ This remains the most important unsolved problem of complexity theory.
▪ In fact there are many difficult and unsolved problems in this area.
▪ In 1905 Einstein ranked it among the top five unsolved problems in physics, and that status continues to this day.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ All too often, crimes of violence are left unsolved.
▪ What happened to the men on the expedition will always be an unsolved mystery.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But police also said that most unsolved female murders are not the result of domestic violence.
▪ It presented a far better opportunity for an unsolved murder than killing her on his own premises.
▪ Meanwhile, the problems of stagnant wages, low savings and sluggish productivity gains will remain unsolved.
▪ Next, I shall discuss some difficulties which it either generates or leaves unsolved.
▪ One of the most important unsolved questions here is the extent to which changes in ideas and attitudes are really autonomous.
▪ The group said that 15 of the arson fires remain unsolved.
▪ This book collects together what I consider to be some of the major unsolved mysteries of science.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unsolved

1660s, from un- (1) "not" + past participle of solve (v.).

Wiktionary
unsolved

a. not yet solved

WordNet
unsolved

adj. not solved; "many crimes remain unsolved"; "many problems remain unresolved" [syn: unresolved] [ant: solved]

Wikipedia
Unsolved (album)

Unsolved is a 2000 album by the band Karate.

Unsolved (TV series)

Unsolved (originally known as Unsolved: Getting Away with Murder) was a regional television documentary series produced by Grampian Television (now STV North).

Unsolved

The word unsolved means that any solution is not yet known; "many crimes remain unsolved;" "many problems remain unresolved."

In modern science there are still many open questions in many fields:

Unsolved may also refer to:

  • Unsolved (album), an album by the American band Karate
  • Unsolved (TV series), a Scottish TV crime series on STV
  • Unsolved Mysteries, an American TV series

Usage examples of "unsolved".

We do not mean to imply that all unsolved cases can be profiled successfully.

Soon, the BSU was consulting on unsolved cases on a regular basis through a formalized Crime Analysis and Criminal Personality Profiling Program.

Why they did not arrange to build their vaults and incubators nearer home has always been a mystery to me, and, like many other Martian mysteries, unsolved and unsolvable by earthly reasoning and customs.

Wednesday, June 29, 1949, the night a flunky harness bull cracked the most famous unsolved homicide in California history.

I know for a fact that cops often return to the scenes of their unsolved cases.

He had ambition to spare, and if he played his cards right, if he solved this case and successfully tied it to other unsolved cases in other states, this could be his ticket to D.

East Coast cities with unsolved murders that could be connected to the others.

It will be an unsolved crime, but the black market smuggling will stop, at least on this end.

He said it was just another unsolved black homicide, one among too many.

And then he tried to cover his tracks by citing the backlog of Hispanic, Filipino, and even unsolved white homicides.

Hardin case in the routine hopper along with all the other unsolved black homicides.

I had reread everything written in the newspaper about the unsolved murders of Roe Tierney and Tom Hutchin-son.

Marge told me you and Milo had been to visit and talked to her about an unsolved murder.

Marcus Longo had talked about a territorial problem in trying to track down an unsolved homicide Rob Westerfield may have committed.

For over a year I had been unofficially investigating unsolved murders in Southeast, many of them Jane Does.