a dictionary that has not been shortened by the omitting terms or definitions; a comprehensive dictionary
<noun.communication> [ adj ]
(used of texts) not shortened
<adj.all> an unabridged novel
Unabridged \Un`a*bridged"\, a. Not abridged, or shortened; full; complete; entire; whole.
The Complete Listener, which specialises in unabridged classics, has just brought out The Vicar of Wakefield (Pounds 18.00, five hours, seven cassettes) but it sounds as though it was recorded in someone's garden shed.
He drove 13,978 miles and visited 38 states, and the result was The Lost Continent (CAB 804; 8 cassettes; 10 hours 30 minutes; unabridged).
The golden age of the American dictionary ended in 1961 when Merriam-Webster replaced the peerless second edition of its unabridged dictionary with the "Third New International Dictionary."