unsaid

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛd

Etymology 1

Verb

unsaid

1. simple past and past participle of unsay
   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 233:

     Once there, she makes good use of her time, and retakes all those said letters; considering, perhaps, that what is said may be unsaid, but what is written remains in evidence against you.

Etymology 2

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 said

English unsaid

From un- + said.

Adjective

unsaid (not comparable)

1. Unspoken.

   We discussed the terms, but the methods were left unsaid.

   • 1989, Hendrik J. Boom, Claus Bendix Nielsen, Andrew D. McGettrick, Peter D. Mosses, Charles Rattray, Robert D. Tennent, David A. Watt, “A view of formal semantics”, in Computer standards & Interfaces, volume 9, number 1:

     Informal techniques, if properly written, can be quite readable and comprehensible; unfortunately, it is easy to leave unsaid details that must be specified, or to misgeneralise and produce inconsistencies.

Translations

unspoken — see unspoken

Anagrams

• UNAIDS, Sudani