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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unspoken
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a tacit/unspoken assumption (=one that no one says aloud)
▪ There seemed to be a tacit assumption that they would get married.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
agreement
▪ Their attempts at lovemaking dwindled to the point of non-existence, until there was an unspoken agreement not to try any more.
▪ There would have to be an unspoken agreement between them.
▪ By some unspoken agreement they settled quietly together to watch the night fall and the heavy tide thunder in.
▪ An unspoken agreement grants peace and prosperity, respectively, to scholars and publishers who stay out of the public debate.
assumption
▪ Children so treated all too quickly respond to their teacher's unspoken assumptions.
▪ Electronic commerce depends on the unspoken assumption that computers cooperate efficiently for seamless information sharing.
▪ Rather it may point to an unspoken assumption that it does.
▪ The unspoken assumption in all the speculation is that Yeltsin is too sick to serve out his four-year term.
▪ Taking generalised formulations of legal theory seriously can often lead into the cul-de-sac of the unspoken assumption of that theory.
▪ Thus unspoken assumptions about work actually interfered with business goals.
▪ There is often an unspoken assumption that they are a waste of resources that could be used to save younger people.
▪ It often appears in general Synod with some unspoken assumptions about the text of the Bible.
question
▪ But the last unspoken question consumed her with fresh guilt.
▪ The unspoken question among them seems to be: What's it going to be, boxing or chess?
▪ One way of understanding this is to view the discourse as proceeding by answering imagined and unspoken questions by the receiver.
▪ Everywhere an unspoken question seemed to hang heavily in the air: Would we have been better off without Home Rule?
▪ The air was suddenly thick with unspoken questions.
▪ Perhaps you do not want to pass on; in which case I shall answer your unspoken question.
▪ And Cardiff seemed to hear that unspoken question again: Is it you?
rule
▪ Meanwhile, residential social work is hedged about with overt and unspoken rules in any effort to improve matters.
▪ For there is an unspoken rule that to swoop too eagerly on the in-flight sweet is uncool.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
unspoken thoughts
▪ We had an unspoken agreement not to ask personal questions.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All this was unspoken, of course.
▪ All through the day, remember to show him you like him in unspoken ways like smiles, pats and brief hugs.
▪ Given the tone of our conversation and the weather, an entire nexus of unspoken intrigue suddenly surrounded me.
▪ He left swiftly and she gazed after him, the words of refusal unspoken.
▪ Their attempts at lovemaking dwindled to the point of non-existence, until there was an unspoken agreement not to try any more.
▪ We do not, by unspoken consent, talk politics when we meet.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unspoken

late 14c., from un- (1) "not" + past participle of speak (v.). Similar formation in Middle Dutch ongesproken, Middle Low German ungesproken.

Wiktionary
unspoken
  1. 1 Not spoken; not said. 2 Not formally articulated or stated; implicit or understood. v

  2. (past participle of unspeak English)

WordNet
unspoken
  1. adj. expressed without speech; especially because words would be inappropriate or inadequate; "a mute appeal"; "a silent curse"; "best grief is tongueless"- Emily Dickinson; "the words stopped at her lips unsounded"; "unspoken grief"; "choking exasperation and wordless shame"- Thomas Wolfe [syn: mute, tongueless, wordless]

  2. not made explicit; "the unexpressed terms of the agreement"; "things left unsaid"; "some kind of unspoken agreement"; "his action is clear but his reason remains unstated" [syn: unexpressed, unsaid, unstated, unuttered, unverbalized, unverbalised, unvoiced]

unspoken

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Wikipedia
Unspoken (album)

Unspoken is Christian artist Jaci Velasquez's seventh English album. It was released on March 25, 2003, debuting at No. 55 in the Billboard 200. seven weeks later, it was off the charts. Nevertheless, it did extremely well in the Top Gospel Albums chart. It was the first English album by Jaci that did not have a whole or partial Spanish song.

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Unspoken (play)

Unspoken is a one-woman play written by Rebecca Clarke. It was first performed in 2005 and has been toured around Australia since. The show is also performed by Rebecca Clarke. The play tells the author's semi-autobiographical story about what it is like to have a brother with severe disabilities. Unspoken is the winner of Best Independent Production and Best Newcomer at the 2005 Sydney Theatre Awards.

Category:2005 plays Category:Australian plays

Unspoken (Unspoken album)

Unspoken is the eponymously titled debut studio album from the Christian band Unspoken. The album released on April 1, 2014 by Centricity Music, and the producer is Seth Mosley for all tracks except for No. 2 "Who You Are" that is produced by Jason Walker. This album was well received commercially and critically.

Unspoken (film)

Unspoken is a 2008 Belgian drama film. It was written and directed by Fien Troch, produced by Antonino Lombardo, and starred Emmanuelle Devos and Bruno Todeschini.

The film tells the story of Grace, who is still grappling with the disappearance of her daughter five years earlier, and her husband Lukas, which is trapped in his own helpless grief. He and Grace have long since stopped communicating. As Grace confronts a series of small absurdities in her apartment building, Lukas finds himself unable to complete even the simplest of daily tasks. When something truly heartbreaking happens in a family, the deepest response is often unspoken.

Unspoken had its world premiere at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival. It has received high praise from film critics and won various awards from numerous film organizations and festivals. The film was named Best Film of 2009 by the Belgian Film Critics Association (UCC) winning the André Cavens Award. Emmanuelle Devos received Best Female Performance at the 26th Torino Film Festival. The film was also nominated for the Grand Prix at the Flanders International Film Festival Ghent.

Unspoken (band)

Unspoken is an American Christian pop rock band. The band is composed of Mike Gomez, Jon Lowry, Chad Mattson and Ariel Munoz. The band released their debut single " Who You Are" on the record label Centricity Music. Released on June 12, 2012, the song has charted on numerous Christian song charts, and was the only song from the band's debut EP Get to Me to be featured on their first full-length album. The self-titled debut LP Unspoken was released April 1, 2014. A five-song preview EP, The World Is Waking, was released July 24, 2013.They have had four straight Top 5 AC singles in their career including “Who You Are,” “Lift My Life Up,” “Start A Fire,” and “Good Fight,” with “Start A Fire” reaching No. 1; the song "Life My Life Up" was also included on the 2015 WOW Hits Release. With successful tours alongside artists such as Big Daddy Weave and Sanctus Real, Unspoken has built steady momentum with their last two EP's. Their album features diverse recording, befitting a diverse band from all over the country including Maine, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic.

Unspoken (comics)

The Unspoken is a fictional supervillain in Marvel Comics. He is the cousin of Black Bolt and was once the king of all Inhumans before he was forced into exile.

Usage examples of "unspoken".

Post-humanism schooled us to think in terms of fits and starts, of structures accreting along unspoken patterns, following the lines first suggested by the ancient Terran philosopher llya Prigogine.

His unspoken, apparently racist, message was echoed by a resident of Parlier, another nearby town that has also become essentially all Mexican.

He waved the empty jug at the potman, who looked at Keisyl, brows raised in unspoken question.

It all seemed to come down to impeding the free flow of information to certain persons, preselected by an unspoken code somehow known to and agreed upon by all present but her.

Already he was regretting his unspoken agreement to her bargain, but that gold refused to be ignored.

But what Lord Grenville thought of this matter, or to what reflections this comely tirade of Lady Portarles led the Comtesse de Tournay, remained unspoken, for the curtain had just risen on the third act of ORPHEUS, and admonishments to silence came from every part of the house.

Heart, the unspoken Word, that integrates both Ascent and Descent and finds Spirit both transcending the Many and embracing the Many.

Cleggett, the Brooklynite-this person whom young reporters conceived of as the staid, dry prophet of the dusty Fact--was secretly a mighty reservoir of unwritten, unacted, unlived, unspoken romance.

All that lay unspoken between us, unaddressed, set aside for this business of war.

I stood in the doorway with all that had gone unspoken and unconfronted in my friendship with Devin hanging between us as Darin sang with a detached mourning for the unattainable, the gulf between what we wish for and what we get.

Herewiss went after the unspoken thought with his underhearing to try to catch it: .

The sounds were primal and complex, a perfect chaos of unspent, unspoken, undirected emotions, most of which were a backlog that only then found expression.

A delicious frisson of shame and excitement twinged in him, as if he had spoken an unspoken yearning to a lover or witnessed an act both vile and private from an undiscoverable peephole.

By unspoken mutual consent, they sidled quickly away from the kitten-tree and around the nearest unpeopled corner.

She rejoiced that she had missed the family meal, for it was not easy to sit at the table with Grandmother and Cousin Tom and Aunt Alphonsine, unspoken comments on her position hanging from each face like stalactites.