UNSPOKEN

mute, tongueless, unspoken, wordless

(adjective) expressed without speech; “a mute appeal”; “a silent curse”; “best grief is tongueless”- Emily Dickinson; “the words stopped at her lips unsounded”; “unspoken grief”; “choking exasperation and wordless shame”- Thomas Wolfe

unexpressed, unsaid, unstated, unuttered, unverbalized, unverbalised, unvoiced, unspoken

(adjective) not made explicit; “the unexpressed terms of the agreement”; “things left unsaid”; “some kind of unspoken agreement”; “his action is clear but his reason remains unstated”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

unspoken (not comparable)

(sometimes postpositive) Not spoken; not said.

(sometimes postpositive) Not formally articulated or stated; implicit or understood.

Synonyms

• (not spoken): unsaid

• (not formally stated): unacknowledged

Verb

unspoken

past participle of unspeak

Anagrams

• neopunks

Source: Wiktionary


UNSPEAK

Un*speak", v. t. Etym: [1st pref. un- + speak.]

Definition: To retract, as what has been spoken; to recant; to unsay. [R.] Shak.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

18 May 2024

SUNLIT

(adjective) lighted by sunlight; “the sunlit slopes of the canyon”; “violet valleys and the sunstruck ridges”- Wallace Stegner


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Coffee Trivia

According to Guinness World Records, the most massive cup of coffee contained 22,739.14 liters and was created by Alcaldía Municipal de Chinchiná (Colombia) at Parque de Bolívar, Chinchiná, Caldas, Colombia, on 15 June 2019. Fifty people worked for more than a month to build this giant cup. The drink prepared was Arabic coffee.

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