UNEXPRESSED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unexpressed mean? 

• UNEXPRESSED (adjective)
  The adjective UNEXPRESSED has 1 sense:

1. not made explicit

  Familiarity information: UNEXPRESSED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNEXPRESSED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not made explicit

Synonyms:

unexpressed; unsaid; unspoken; unstated; unuttered; unverbalised; unverbalized; unvoiced

Context example:

his action is clear but his reason remains unstated

Similar:

implicit; inexplicit (implied though not directly expressed; inherent in the nature of something)

 Context examples 

Then she left the revolt of her thought unexpressed to cry out: "Oh! It is degrading! It is not nice! It is nasty!"

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Only on one point were they agreed; and that was the haunting sense of unexpressed deformity with which the fugitive impressed his beholders.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

But as it was, such a notion had scarcely ever entered her head, except by Mrs. Jennings's suggestion; and she could not help believing herself the nicest observer of the two;—she watched his eyes, while Mrs. Jennings thought only of his behaviour;—and while his looks of anxious solicitude on Marianne's feeling, in her head and throat, the beginning of a heavy cold, because unexpressed by words, entirely escaped the latter lady's observation;—SHE could discover in them the quick feelings, and needless alarm of a lover.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

I had indeed made my proposal from the idea that he wished and would ask me to be his wife: an expectation, not the less certain because unexpressed, had buoyed me up, that he would claim me at once as his own.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)