UNSAID

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unsaid mean? 

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

1. not made explicit

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNSAID (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 

Emma, I must tell you what you will not ask, though I may wish it unsaid the next moment.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

She wished such words unsaid with all her heart.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

“And do you wish me to go with you?” said I, seeing that he left something unsaid.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

When she had spoken it, she recollected herself, and wished it unsaid; but there was no need of confusion; for her brother saw her only as the supposed inmate of Mansfield parsonage, and replied but to invite her in the kindest manner to his own house, and to claim the best right in her.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

She was so devoted, she had such a quick perception of what it would be well to say, and what it would be well to leave unsaid; she was so forgetful of herself, and so regardful of the sorrow about her, that I held her in a sort of veneration.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)