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UNSOUGHT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does unsought mean?
• UNSOUGHT (adjective)
The adjective UNSOUGHT has 1 sense:
1. not desired
Familiarity information: UNSOUGHT used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not desired
Synonyms:
undesired; unsought
Context example:
an undesired result
Similar:
unwanted (not wanted; not needed)
Context examples
Most of the confidences were unsought—frequently I have feigned sleep, preoccupation, or a hostile levity when I realized by some unmistakable sign that an intimate revelation was quivering on the horizon—for the intimate revelations of young men or at least the terms in which they express them are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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