unobserved

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *né

Proto-Indo-European *n̥-

Proto-Germanic *un-

Proto-West Germanic *un-

Old English un-

Middle English un-

English un-

English observed

English unobserved

From un- + observed.

Adjective

unobserved (not comparable)

1. Not seen or observed.
   • 1682, [Nahum Tate; John Dryden], The Second Part of Absalom and Achitophel. A Poem, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 5:

     Such practices as Theſe, too groſs to lye / Long unobſerv'd by each diſcerning Eye, / The more judicious Iſraelites Unſpell'd, / Though ſtill the Charm the giddy Rabble held, […]

   • 2002, chapter 3, in Behavioral Models‎^[1], UC Berkeley, archived from the original on 26 April 2022, page 38:

     The relation of the logit formula to the distribution of unobserved utility (as opposed to the characteristics of choice probabilities) was developed by Marley, as cited by Luce and Suppes (1965), who showed that the extreme value distribution leads to the logit formula.

Translations

not seen or observed

• French: inobservé (fr)
• Greek: απαρατήρητος (el) (aparatíritos)

  Ancient Greek: ἀθεώρητος (atheṓrētos)

• Hungarian: észrevétlen (hu)
• Italian: inosservato (it)
• Latin: inobservātus
• Portuguese: inobservado
• Spanish: inobservado

Adverb

unobserved (not comparable)

1. Whilst not being seen or observed.
   • 1960 April, A. W. Bennett, “A Locomotive Shedmaster's Day”, in Railway Magazine, page 273:

     The visitors we do not encourage are the many small boys who slip in unobserved and are a danger to themselves and the staff.