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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unstated
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The unstated assumption here is that the time is not right for using force.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But there were other, unstated, reasons.
▪ It involves a change in both the stated and unstated rules which govern the behavior and beliefs of an organization.
▪ So looking at clauses joined by but is one way of revealing a speaker's or writer's underlying, unstated assumptions.
▪ There was no flowering between us, just the unstated promise of responsibility between one friend and another.
▪ These premises are often unstated and hence untested.
▪ Whether stated or unstated, these conventions remain true for all Mills and Boon, Silhouette, and Harlequin romances.
▪ Yet, the aspiration for social cohesion is the unstated aim of much of the republican agenda in New Labour.
Wiktionary
unstated

a. 1 Not explicitly stated 2 unspoken

WordNet
unstated

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, unsaid, unuttered, unverbalized, unverbalised, unvoiced, unspoken]

Usage examples of "unstated".

All successful religions seem at their nucleus to make an unstated and perhaps even unconscious resonance with the perinatal experience.

I could not follow the flow of her narrative because of her unstated assumption that I knew what she was referring to.

On the lids of the bowls, lakeside tea houses wreathed in mist were implied, nestling against the shores of unstated lakes.

Teutonic bore, that an unstated number of recorders would then perform some suitable item, and that at some later time Johns might be expected to produce music from his oboe.

A squat, matronly woman was pushing forward, moving to the unstated rhythm.

Kings-ley habitually worked in this mode, his papers couched in a style whose unstated message was to show, not just an interesting application of impressive techniques to a known problem, but also that he was a good deal better at doing this than his readers.

The same views emerged in different guises, long on logic, brimming with unstated passion.

Johnny understood the gesture, it was a sharing of sorrow, an understanding of mutual loss, and an unstated offer of comfort.

She knew exactly what he had in mind, for their lower bodies were already working their way toward the unstated goal.

He had great freedom whenever my father dismissed him, he was allowed to move at will between Hold and village, even to be absent for days at a time, able to do this because of the indulgence of Father and the unstated relationship between them.

The unstated implication was that instead of an invitation to talk, they might have sent a battle fleet.

The Skywalkers were completing repair work on Jade Shadow, and Han, Leia, and the Noghri had gone to Coruscant on unstated business.

Urakov and his colleagues stunned the inspectors by offering to arrange for a 'technology transfer' with the United States, whereby the United States would have access to the discoveries at Obolensk - for an unstated price.

Their unstated purpose was to attempt to place some control over the sexual behaviour of their growing sons and daughters, in order to head off the sort of tragedy I ran into with Priscilla and Donald.

It is the act of unfocusing your mind and inducing an inner fog to escape the responsibility of judgment—on the unstated premise that a thing will not exist if only you refuse to identify it, that A will not be A so long as you do not pronounce the verdict 'It is.