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View synonyms for unseen

unseen

[ uhn-seen ]

adjective

  1. not seen; unperceived; unobserved; invisible.
  2. recognized or comprehended without prior study, as a written text or musical score.


unseen

/ ʌnˈsiːn /

adjective

  1. not observed or perceived; invisible
  2. (of passages of writing) not previously seen or prepared
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noun

  1. a passage, not previously seen, that is presented to students for translation
“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 unseen1

1150–1200; Middle English unsene, unsehene; un- 1, seen
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Idioms and Phrases

see sight unseen .
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Example Sentences

That number is higher than the official case count because it includes an estimate of infections that go unseen, unfelt, or unreported.

For creatures at these depths, trying to swim here unseen is “like trying to play hide and seek on a football field,” says Karen Osborn.

Instead they are spotted as shadows crossing in front of their stars, or inferred as unseen forces tugging at their stars.

Such eyes in the skies, WMO notes, can record extremes that might otherwise go unseen.

They thought these must have been created by unseen exoplanets — planets outside of our solar system.

I walked home alone, in the dark, all the unseen voices of that evening still ringing in my ears.

The presence of the chicken feet protects and preserves the unseen but nonetheless unbreakable bonds of love and family.

She said that whenever she came into the room, she had felt the radiation of a vast and unseen force.

In the play, Gallagher plays Jimmy, who has been friends with the unseen Sam for more than 25 years.

Unseen and unknown, he lived in secret, creeping into homes in the dead of night and surviving on what he could steal.

No notice being taken of the taps, the unseen visitor, after a short lapse, ventured to open the door and peep in.

At last, tired of fighting an unseen foe, the men arose to their feet, and with a wild cheer sprang forward.

And Punch would get out of bed with raging hate in his heart against all the world, seen and unseen.

Her feet crush creeping things: there is a busy ant or blazoned beetle, with its back broken, writhing in the dust, unseen.

He glanced sharply from face to face, feeling as though some silent, unseen process were changing everything about him.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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