penned
Wrote or confined
Penned is the past tense of pen, meaning to write or compose: She penned a letter to her grandmother, He penned several novels in his youth.
The word carries a slightly literary or formal tone.
Separately, penned means confined in an enclosure: The sheep were penned for the night, penned up like animals.
Composed in text
- composedCalm and self-possessed
- draftedEnlisted by requirement
- craftedMade with skill
- createdCaused to exist
inscribed · scripted · scrawled · jotted · scribbled · recorded · transcribed · noted
written
Composed in text
created · inscribed · scripted · scrawled · jotted · scribbled · recorded · transcribed · noted · documented
enclosed
Surrounded and sealed within
cooped · trapped · hemmed · bounded · restricted · contained · enclosed · impounded · yarded · paddocked
manuscript
Original text before publication
memoir · epistle · narrative · letter · journal · diary · verse · poem · script · treatise
- captivitycaptive, prisoner, detained, imprisoned, incarcerated
pennedfree
Without payment or restriction
freed · released · liberated · loose · unconfined
pennedunwritten
Not set down formally
unrecorded · anonymous · oral · unattributed · uncomposed
- penned inConfined within barriers
- penning inConfining to enclosed space