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UNTOLD
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Dictionary entry overview: What does untold mean?
• UNTOLD (adjective)
The adjective UNTOLD has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: UNTOLD used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Too much to be measured
Synonyms:
incalculable; untold
Context example:
incalculable riches
Similar:
much ((quantifier used with mass nouns) great in quantity or degree or extent)
Context examples
There seemed untold numbers of these white men.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Ebbits seemed sinking back into his senility with the tale untold, and I demanded: What of thy sons, Moklan and Bidarshik?
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
The latter informs the party that she bequeaths untold wealth to the young pair and an awful doom to Don Pedro, if he doesn't make them happy.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Mercedes looked at them imploringly, untold repugnance at sight of pain written in her pretty face.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
The males were exterminated, Ape Town was destroyed, the females and young were driven away to live in bondage, and the long rivalry of untold centuries had reached its bloody end.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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