UNHEARD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unheard mean? 

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

1. not necessarily inaudible but not heard

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNHEARD (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not necessarily inaudible but not heard

Similar:

inaudible; unhearable (impossible to hear; imperceptible by the ear)

 Context examples 

She thought he was wishing to speak to her unheard by the rest.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

It was like Marmee to get up a little treat for them, but anything so fine as this was unheard of since the departed days of plenty.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Exactly so, indeed—quite unheard of—but some ladies say any thing.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Wait you with me outside, unseen and unheard, and things much stranger are yet to be.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

These walls are thick, and it is conceivable that his shriek, if he had time to utter one, was unheard.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And at last took the blame upon himself, added my aunt; and wrote me a mad letter, charging himself with robbery, and wrong unheard of.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Captain Wentworth, after being unseen and unheard of at Uppercross for two whole days, appeared again among them to justify himself by a relation of what had kept him away.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

This part of his intelligence, though unheard by Lydia, was caught by Elizabeth, and, as it assured her that Darcy was not less answerable for Wickham's absence than if her first surmise had been just, every feeling of displeasure against the former was so sharpened by immediate disappointment, that she could hardly reply with tolerable civility to the polite inquiries which he directly afterwards approached to make.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

He met her at the parlour-door, and hardly asking her how she did, in the natural key of his voice, sunk it immediately, to say, unheard by her father, Can you come to Randalls at any time this morning?

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Forms leaned together in the taxis as they waited, and voices sang, and there was laughter from unheard jokes, and lighted cigarettes outlined unintelligible gestures inside.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)