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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unseen
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
hand
▪ He fell again, the wind shoving him with giant, unseen hands, knocking him to the floor.
▪ The severed blade was raised from the sawdust by an unseen hand and re-connected to its spindle.
▪ It involves a huge staff of unseen hands working together to give four guys a trouble-free two hours on stage every night.
▪ Sometimes an unseen hand rocked the chair so violently that he lost consciousness.
▪ Swings also moved gently back and forth in the breeze, as if rocked by some unseen hand.
▪ He felt unseen hands help him into one of the partitioned stalls and there he stretched out and closed his stinging eyes.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
sight unseen
▪ If I didn't take the car, the other guy was willing to buy it sight unseen.
▪ But nothing's worse than driving into an auto repair shop, sight unseen, and being fleeced.
▪ He bought his house sight unseen, sold on the location.
▪ Taking a risk, I ordered five each of six Victorian species, sight unseen.
▪ The principal said he offered me the Position sight unseen based on my letter of application and my resume.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The grizzly bear is a species unseen in our state since 1906.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At that time the excitement of our explorations into this unseen world had set my mind aflame with pleasure.
▪ Behind her, the sound of footsteps climbing an unseen stairway.
▪ But the feeling of an unseen presence never left him.
▪ However he remains unseen because Sauron can not pierce the shadows he made for his own defence.
▪ I could see the bell clearly beneath the water: nothing could approach unseen.
▪ People have gained confidence in sending substantial sums off to unseen institutions and working with them long-distance.
▪ Sheer terror in a nightmare can be the result of an unseen, hidden menace - for instance behind a closed door.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unseen

Unseen \Un*seen"\, a.

  1. Not seen or discovered.

  2. Unskilled; inexperienced. [Obs.]
    --Clarendon.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unseen

early 13c., from un- (1) "not" + seen. Similar formation in Old English ungesewen, Middle Dutch ongesien, Dutch ongezien, Old High German ungesëhan, German ungesehen, Old Norse usenn.

Wiktionary
unseen

Etymology 1

  1. Not seen or discovered. Etymology 2

    n. An examination involving material not previously seen or studied. v

  2. (past participle of unsee English)

WordNet
unseen
  1. adj. not seen or perceived; "unseen natural resources"

  2. not observed [syn: unobserved]

  3. n. a belief that there is a realm controlled by a divine spirit [syn: spiritual world]

Wikipedia
Unseen (Buffy/Angel novel)

Unseen is a horror trilogy, written by Nancy Holder and Jeff Mariotte and published in 2001 by Pocket Books. It is part of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer series.

Unseen

Unseen or The Unseen may refer to:

Unseen (album)

Unseen is the seventh studio album by Swedish melodic death metal band The Haunted.

Vocalist Peter Dolving has described the album as "Epic. Danceable. Groovy. And very very arty farty metal. With this next record we are going to be taking a piss in the general direction of all the crappy 99.9 percent of generic contemporary Mr. Goatse jerks out there".

The album cover and track list were revealed on January 28, 2011. The cover was done by Frode Sylthe, a friend of the band, who also did the cover to their 2004 album Revolver. The band has said that they "really like his design aesthetic, and he seems to come up with something unique every single time".

Unseen (book)

Unseen is the ninth in a series of collections of short stories by Australian author Paul Jennings. It was first released in 1998.

Usage examples of "unseen".

Instead, their grandson became the target of the unseen forces afflicting the household.

While Xin and Liao and Silipan led fully conscious lives, Xopi Reung was part of the automation in the walls, unseen except for the occasional peculiar circumstance.

As the ice gripping the base of the structure twisted to some unseen current, the two opposites sides came into view, revealing the broken maw of wooden framework reaching beneath the street level, crowded with enormous balsa logs and what appeared to be massive inflated bladders, three of them punctured and flaccid.

As she leaned against Blad, she allowed her hand to stroke a sensitive area of his body, unseen by the king.

She thought how Jo would have laughed at the sight and blew her sister a kiss, knowing she was there too, unseen.

There sailed a grand brontosaur, like an arrogant Titanic, headed for unseen collisions with flesh, time, weather, and bergs headed south overland in an Age of Ice.

Once a man even reached the Chesaux de Frise, he swept at the sabre blades with a musket, bellowing defiance, and then he was hit by an unseen French infantryman and he fell, twisting like a rag doll, down the slope and the French jeered him and poured fire down.

In Iffish they say it was Estarriol who sailed that boat, but in Tok they say it was two fishermen blown by a storm far out on the Open Sea, and in Holp the tale is of a Holpish fisherman, and tells that he could not move his boat from the unseen sands it grounded on, and so wanders there yet.

I got my oboe and went to the room of Herr Hummel and from there we made our way, unseen by any, to the summer-house.

But still he fell silent, and backed up the stairs slowly, away from Mammy Venus and toward his unseen mother.

No living thing they encountered save only the Queen and her little martlets, but all things desirous were ministered unto them by unseen hands and all royal entertainment.

But here in this shallow bay she could see clearly enough--see the flawless beauty of the mers and Silky, her companions, Their streamlined forms suspended by unseen hands.

Salzburg feeling, the aura of a sophisticated ancient city, wrapped in a glisteningly pure blanket of snow, under siege, faced with the daily onslaught of an unseen army that seemed to have an unlimited supply of coilguns and metastable hydrogen.

The ship replayed those memories unseen from Becky before the next millisecond passed.

But the cop, Morraine had killed him, squeezing an unseen fist around his brain until it killed the poor guy, blood flowing from his eyes, his nose, mouth and ears.