UNPERCEIVED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unperceived mean? 

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

1. not perceived or commented on

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNPERCEIVED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not perceived or commented on

Synonyms:

unperceived; unremarked

Similar:

unnoticed (not noticed)

 Context examples 

The danger, however, was at present so unperceived, that they did not by any means rank as misfortunes with her.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

I measured a little finger which had fallen down from one of these statues, and lay unperceived among some rubbish, and found it exactly four feet and an inch in length.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I saw him on the point of repeating his blow, when, overcome by pain and anguish, I quitted the cottage, and in the general tumult escaped unperceived to my hovel.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Agatha listened with respect, her eyes sometimes filled with tears, which she endeavoured to wipe away unperceived; but I generally found that her countenance and tone were more cheerful after having listened to the exhortations of her father.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

About four hours after we began our journey, I awaked by a very ridiculous accident; for the carriage being stopped a while, to adjust something that was out of order, two or three of the young natives had the curiosity to see how I looked when I was asleep; they climbed up into the engine, and advancing very softly to my face, one of them, an officer in the guards, put the sharp end of his half-pike a good way up into my left nostril, which tickled my nose like a straw, and made me sneeze violently; whereupon they stole off unperceived, and it was three weeks before I knew the cause of my waking so suddenly.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

But he had fancied her in love with him; that evidently must have been his dependence; and after raving a little about the seeming incongruity of gentle manners and a conceited head, Emma was obliged in common honesty to stop and admit that her own behaviour to him had been so complaisant and obliging, so full of courtesy and attention, as (supposing her real motive unperceived) might warrant a man of ordinary observation and delicacy, like Mr. Elton, in fancying himself a very decided favourite.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)