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unsaid
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
unspoken. v
(en-past of: unsay)
WordNet
adj. 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, unstated, unuttered, unverbalized, unverbalised, unvoiced, unspoken]
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Wikipedia
The term "unsaid" refers what is not explicitly stated, what is hidden and/or implied in the speech of an individual or a group of people.
The unsaid may be the product of intimidation; of a mulling over of thought; or of bafflement in the face of the inexpressible.
Usage examples of "unsaid".
Seregil had told him, kindly leaving unsaid the fact that Alec had shouted himself awake every night since their charnel house tour.
She smiled and thanked him, but the thing had been said and could never be unsaid, and Bertha Kircher knew even more surely than as though he had fallen upon his knees and protested undying devotion that the young English officer loved her.
And though welcome routine readministered its anesthetic throughout the house, there remained between them the dull throb of the vast unsaid.
Ser Balon would have another task as well, but that part was best left unsaid.
That damned biograph left too much unsaid, particularly apparent to a brawn trainee.
A penetrating study of the metapsychology of tabooing and the meanings of the unsaid in Dostoevsky.
The barrier they had so carefully constructed between them, of words unsaid and deeds unadmitted, now lay shattered, a victim of the storm.
One of these two possibilities was that the missing people were dead, or else hiding from whoever wanted them that way, a worst-case scenario that, neither wishing to interrupt the appetite of their son, who scarfed pizza under the same suspension of physical law that allows Dagwood Bumstead to eat sandwiches, would have to go unsaid.
The fragile truce she and Reuel had formed on the Korana had left so much unsaid.
Flora a kiss in the air an inch off her cheek and looked vaguely at my sling, finding like Orkney that hands unavailable for shaking left goodbyes half unsaid.
Alethea philosophically to Sue Phipps, her staff nurse, and ten minutes later wished the remark unsaid when the telephone rang to say that there was a compound fracture of tib and fib coming up and that the Orthopaedic Registrar would see it right away.
Gini could feel the room reverberate with the unsayable and the unsaid.
We are taxed till our heads ache to understand--for what is said in the morning is unsaid in the afternoon--and the end, for us, is always punishments and ruin and shame.
And though welcome routine readministered its anesthetic throughout the house, there remained between them the dull throb of the vast unsaid.
Maybe it was this kind of thing, the undercurrents of unsaid Britishness, that had made her leave England in the first place?