Unsaid
[ʌn'sed] or [ʌn'sɛd]
Definition
adj. not said.
Editor: Ricky
Examples
- Consider them unsaid: permit my retractation; accord my pardon. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I left nothing unsaid that I COULD say--short of actually telling you that I knew you had committed the theft. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- His mother parted her lips to begin some other vehement truth, but on looking at him she saw that in his face which led her to leave the words unsaid. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Emma, I must tell you what you will not ask, though I may wish it unsaid the next moment. Jane Austen. Emma.
- But I will drop the subject, lest I say something about the old masters that might as well be left unsaid. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- You leave me under the weight of an accusation which, after all, is unsaid. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Dorothea's faith supplied all that Mr. Casaubon's words seemed to leave unsaid: what believer sees a disturbing omission or infelicity? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- She wished such words unsaid with all her heart. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
Editor: Ricky