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View synonyms for unsaid

unsaid

1

[ uhn-sed ]

verb

  1. simple past tense and past participle of unsay.


unsaid

2

[ uhn-sed ]

adjective

  1. not said; thought but not mentioned or discussed; unstated:

    It was best left unsaid.

unsaid

/ ʌnˈsɛd /

adjective

  1. not said or expressed; unspoken
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of unsaid1

before 1000; Middle English unsa ( i ) d, Old English unsǣd; un- 1, said 1
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Example Sentences

Also left unsaid: how many people will assist the two magnates and how that staff will be paid.

“It’s almost like the unsaid - you don’t have to say. You just know what each other’s thinking.”

From BBC

“There was nothing left unsaid and nothing left undone, which I think is a pretty great place to reach when you're at the end of your life.”

From BBC

Now, the new government has been pushed to do something unpalatable - early releases on a big scale - because the unsayable went unsaid.

From BBC

Left unsaid was the high possibility that Johnson would be forced to cut a deal with Democrats to avoid a shutdown, a scenario that right-wing Republicans are fretting is the speaker's unwanted but unavoidable endgame.

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