Untold
[ʌn'təʊld] or [,ʌn'told]
Definition
(a.) Not told; not related; not revealed; as, untold secrets.
(a.) Not numbered or counted; as, untold money.
Editor: Marilyn
Definition
adj. not told or related: not counted or capable of being counted.
Typed by Brandon
Examples
- Originally no doubt, and for untold centuries, the use was confined to the hairy, undressed, fresh, or dried skins, known as pelts. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- O, what an untold world there is in one human heart! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- You are nothing to me in future, and the past side of the story may as well remain untold. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The Duke owned a great estate, of untold mineral wealth, which had never been properly worked because of lack of transportation facilities. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The latter informs the party that she bequeaths untold wealth to the young pair and an awful doom to Don Pedro, if he doesn't make them happy. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- By the way, said Roylands meditatively, I suppose that Caliphronas thinks you have untold treasures in this Acropolis? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- A certain tribe colonized a certain spot on the globe; of what race this tribe--unknown; in what region that spot--untold. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The sights he had seen there, with brief snatches of food and sleep by intervals, shall remain untold. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Modern inventors have also produced with a flourish nice instrumentalities for raising water, agencies which are covered with the moss of untold centuries in China. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
Typed by Brandon