unsung
[uhn-suhng]
- not sung; not uttered or rendered by singing.
- not celebrated in song or verse; not praised or acclaimed: the unsung heroes of the war.
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Origin of unsung
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Related Words
overlooked, neglected, anonymous, unrecognized, unacknowledged, forgotten, nameless, undistinguished, unknown, unnamed, disregarded, unacclaimed, unglorified, unhonoredExamples from the Web for unsung
Contemporary Examples
Among the characters to be portrayed were the people I had written about—the unsung heroes of the Selma campaign.
There is, however, one unsung hero to this otherwise tawdry story.
There, in his cluttered office at the end of a gravel lane, I came face to face with one of my unsung literary heroes.
Song of my soul, my voice is dead; Die thou, unsung, as tears unshed Shall dry and die in Lost Carcosa.
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Historical Examples
Unsung, unwept, they have carried on, their motto Service and their goal Success.
TerryCharles Goff Thomson
“Unwept, unhonoured, and unsung,” they went to a nameless grave.
Spinifex and SandDavid W Carnegie
Otherwise leave them “unhonoured and unsung,” and unpronounced.
The man who wrote such a poem should not be unknelled, unhonored and unsung.
The Dead Men's SongChampion Ingraham Hitchcock
The man who wrote such a poem should not be unknelled, unhonored, and unsung.
The Dead Men's SongChampion Ingraham Hitchcock
unsung
- not acclaimed or honouredunsung deeds
- not yet sung
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Word Origin and History for unsung
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