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Unnoticed

Definition: Unnoticed

Unnoticed

Adjective

1. Not noticed; "hoped his departure had passed unnoticed".

2. Not noticed.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "unnoticed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1385. (references)


Synonyms: Unnoticed

Synonyms: unobserved (adj), unseen (adj). (additional references)
Antonym: noticed (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Unnoticed

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Disrepute

Inglorious; nameless, renownless; obscure; unknown to fame; unnoticed, unnoted, unhonored, unglorified.

Neglect

Neglected; Verb: unheeded, uncared-for, unperceived, unseen, unobserved, unnoticed, unnoted, unmarked, unattended to, unthought of, unregarded, unremarked, unmissed; shunted, shelved.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Unnoticed

English words defined with "unnoticed": Obscure raysTo go by. (references)
Specialty definitions using "unnoticed": nth. (references)

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Modern Usage: Unnoticed

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Ling, one of the disadvantages of having magnetism is that you bring people out, people that otherwise would go unnoticed. The fact that she can be so annoying is really a tribute to you! (Ally McBeal; writing credit: Henri Vernes)

Often she goes unnoticed, because she is always out of step. (The Worst Witch; writing credit: Jill Murphy; Mary Pleshette Willis)

Oh, it sure was. I especially liked the part where the space aliens beamed all those cows up into their spaceships and then switched brains with the cows so they could come back to earth and infiltrate our society unnoticed! (VeggieTales: Larry-Boy & the Fib from Outer Space!; writing credit: Sylvia Ulrich; Klaus Waller)

Lyrics

It might have appeared to go unnoticed, (Wind beneath my wings; performing artist: BETTE MIDLER)

Clever

The greatest actions of love often got unnoticed. (references; author: unknown)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Unnoticed

DomainTitle

Books

  • Narcissus Spurned: Lest the Pool Stir, Unnoticed (reference)

  • The Love of God: Containing Also the Ministry of the Unnoticed, Invincible Consolation, the Making of a Christian, Now Is It Possible-- (reference)

  • The Unnoticed Majority in Psychiatric Inpatient Care (The Plenum Series on Stress and Coping) (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Unnoticed

AuthorQuotation

Thomas Carlyle

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Unnoticed

TitleAuthorQuote

Sylvie and Bruno

Carroll, Lewis

And she led him out of the room, unnoticed by the rest of the party, who were wholly absorbed in watching the old Beggar.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Unnoticed

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Many Strongyloides infections are mild and go unnoticed. (references)

Because of the loss of sensation, injuries may go unnoticed and often become infected. (references)

Premature ventricular complexes (PVC). An electrical signal from the ventricles causes an early heart beat that generally goes unnoticed. (references)

Economic History

Korea

While our exports to this promising market are surging, this huge export opportunity has not gone unnoticed by our EU and Asia-Pacific competitors, which also are moving aggressively into Korea. (references)

Indigenous People

Guatemala

The measure, intended to help protect the Garifuna culture, largely was unnoticed, even by officials from the coastal area of Izabal where the Garifuna populations are located. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Unnoticed

"Unnoticed" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unnoticed" is used about 407 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%40713,834

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Unnoticed

Expressions using "unnoticed": go unnoticed leave unnoticed pass unnoticed. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Unnoticed

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

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11

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10

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5

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5

again go i tab unnoticed

4

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3

lyrics plumb unnoticed

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Unnoticed

Language Translations for "unnoticed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

i pavënëre (unheeded, unmarked, unobserved, unseen, unsighted, unwitnessed). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

незабелязан (unheeded, unmarked, unsighted, unspotted). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

未被注意. (various references)

   

Czech

  

nepozorovaný (unobserved), nepovšimnutý (unheeded). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

huomaamatta (inadvertently), huomaamaton (imperceptible, inattentive, inconspicuous, unnoticeable). (various references)

   

German

  

unbemerkt (unmarked, unnoticeable, unnoticedly, unobserved, unperceivedly, unremarked, unseen, without remark), unbeachtet (ignore, uncared, unheard, unheated, unheeded, unnoted, unregarded, unregardedly). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

απαρατήρητοσ (unobserved). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

mellõzött (unlooked-at). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

tak terhitung (counless, incalculable). (various references)

   

Italian

  

inosservato (not observed, unheated, unnoted, unnoticeable, unobserved, unperceived, unseen). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

何時しか (before one knows, unawares), 何時の"にか (before one knows, unawares), 何時の"にやら (before you know it, unawares), いつの"にか (before one knows, more than usual, unawares). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

いつしか (before one knows, unawares), いつのまにか (before one knows, unawares), いつのまにやら (before you know it, unawares). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

주목되지 않". (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oticedunnay

   

Portuguese

  

não notado (unmarked, unnoted), despercebido (unheeded, unmarked, unnoted, unseen, unsighted). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

trecut sub tãcere, obscur (abstruse, cloudy, confused, dark, darksome, dim, dull, entangled, foggy, gloomy, indistinct, murk, obscure, obscurely, recondite, tenebrous, unknown), neremarcat, neobservat (unobserved), inobservabil (inconspicuous, inobservable, unseen). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

незамеченный (unespied, unheeded, unmarked, unnoted, unobserved, unremarked, unwitnessed). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

nezapažen (noteless), neprimećen (undetected, unsighted), neopažen (undetected, unobserved), necenjen (unappreciated, unprized, unvalued). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

inadvertido (inadvertent, unheated, unnoted, unseen). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

osedd (unobserved, unseen), oförmärkt (unawares), obemärkt (in obscurity, inglorious, obscure, unheeded, unobserved, unremarked). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

göze çarpmadan (unnoted), gözden kaçmış (overlooked, unnoted, unobserved), farkedilmemiş (unobserved, unspotted), farkedilmeden (unbeknown, unbeknownst). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

непомітний (inappreciable, insensible, noteless, obscure, undistinguished, unnoted, unwitnessed). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

không ai thấy (unobserved, unremarked), không ai để ý bị bỏ qua, bị l m ngơ, bị coi l thường. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Unnoticed

Misspellings

"Unnoticed" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: unnotice, unoticed, unstocked. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Unnoticed"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "unnoticed" (pronounced unnō"tust)
6-n ō" t u s tnoticed.
5-ō" t u s tremotest.
4-t u s tabsolutist, anesthetist, apprenticed, artist, bluntest, brightest, clarinetist, cornettist, cultist, dentist, elitist, faintest, fastest, fattest, fittest, greatest, hottest, latest, leftist, librettist, lightest, neatest, neuroscientist, orthodontist, quietest, quietist, rightist, scientist, separatist, shortest, slightest, smartest, softest, strictest, sweetest, swiftest, tightest, wettest, whitest.
3-u s tablest, abolitionist, abortionist, accompanist, activist, agonist, agriculturalist, agronomist, alarmist, alchemist, allergist, amethyst, amorist, analyst, anarchist, anatomist, anesthesiologist, angriest, animist, antagonist, anthropologist, anticommunist, apologist, aquarist, archaeologist, archivist, arsonist, atheist, August, ballast, balloonist, barest, behaviorist, biased, bicyclist, biggest, biochemist, biologist, bitterest, blackest, bleakest, bloodiest, bluest, boldest, botanist, bravest, breakfast, briefest, broadest, busiest, buttressed, calloused, canoeist, canvassed, capitalist, cardiologist, caricaturist, cartoonist, catalyst, cellist, chauvinist, cheapest, choicest, classicist, cleanest, closest, coldest, colonialist, colonist, columnist, communist, conservationist, contortionist, conversationalist, coolest, craziest, creamiest, criminologist, cruelest, cyclist, darkest, deadliest, dearest, deepest, deforest, deist, densest, dermatologist, determinist, direst, dirtiest, dishonest, disinterest, driest, druggist, dullest, dumbest, earliest, earnest, easiest, ecologist, economist, editorialist, eldest, embarrassed, empiricist, encompassed, encyclopedist, endocrinologist, entomologist, environmentalist, epidemiologist, ethicist, ethnomusicologist, exhibitionist, exorcist, expressionist, extremist, fairest, fanciest, farthest, fascist, federalist, feminist, fetishist, fewest, fiercest, finalist, finest, firmest, flimsiest, florist, focused, focussed, foggiest, fondest, forest, formalist, freest, freshest, friendliest, fullest, fundamentalist, funnest, funniest, furthest, generalist, geneticist, gentlest, geologist, gerontologist, goldest, grandest, gravest, grayest, greediest, greenest, grimaced, grimmest, grooviest, guitarist, gymnast, gynecologist, happiest, hardest, harnessed, harshest, harvest, healthiest, heaviest, heftiest, herbalist, highest, hippest, hobbyist, holiest, honest, hugest, humblest, humorist, hygienist, idealist, ideologist, illusionist, immunologist, imperialist, impressionist, individualist, industrialist, institutionalist, instrumentalist, interest, internationalist, internist, interventionist, isolationist, jaundiced, journalist, juiciest, junkiest, keenest, kindest, kremlinologist, largest, laziest, leanest, likeliest, linguist, littlest, liveliest, lobbyist, locust, longest, loudest, lowest, loyalist, luckiest, lyricist, machinist, manicurist, mannerist, masochist, materialist, meanest, medalist, mercantilist, merest, meteorologist, methodist, microbiologist, mightiest, mildest, mineralogist, misogynist, modernist, modest, monopolist, motorcyclist, motorist, musicologist, narrowest, nastiest, nationalist, naturalist, nearest, neediest, neurologist, neutralist, newest, noblest, noisiest, noncommunist, nonconformist, noninterest, novelist, nutritionist, oboist, obstructionist, oddest, oldest, oncologist, ophthalmologist, opportunist, organist, orthopedist, pacifist, paleontologist, palest, panelist, pathologist, pessimist, pharmacist, philanthropist, photojournalist, physiologist, pianist, polemicist, poorest, populist, prefaced, prejudiced, premised, preservationist, prettiest, priciest, promised, propagandist, protagonist, protectionist, proudest, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, psychologist, psychotherapist, purchased, purest, quickest, racist, radiologist, rainforest, rainiest, rapist, rarest, receptionist, reddest, refocused, reforest, repurchased, reservationist, reservist, resurfaced, revolutionist, rheumatologist, richest, riskiest, ritziest, roughest, rudest, saddest, sadist, safest, satirist, savviest, scariest, secessionist, secularist, segregationist, seismologist, semifinalist, serologist, serviced, severest, sexiest, shakiest, sharpest, showiest, shrewdest, sickest, silliest, simplest, skimpiest, skinniest, sleekest, slickest, slimmest, sloppiest, slowest, smallest, smoggiest, smoothest, socialist, sociologist, soonest, soundest, specialist, spiritualist, stablest, staunchest, steepest, sternest, stickiest, stiffest, stormiest, strangest, strategist, strongest, stupidest, supremacist, surest, surfaced, survivalist, tallest, tannest, technologist, televangelist, tempest, terraced, theorist, therapist, thickest, thinnest, thorniest, tiniest, toniest, toughest, tourist, toxicologist, traditionalist, trendiest, trickiest, truest, ugliest, ultranationalist, unbiased, unfocused, unionist, unkindest, urologist, violinist, violist, virologist, vocalist, warmest, weakest, wealthiest, weirdest, widest, wildest, wisest, witnessed, worthiest, yellowest, youngest, zaniest, zoologist.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Unnoticed

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: continued.

Words within the letters "c-d-e-i-n-n-o-t-u"

-1 letter: continue, eduction, uncoined.

-2 letters: conduit, contend, counted, ctenoid, deontic, dunnite, intoned, noctuid, noticed, unction, unnoted.

-3 letters: codein, coedit, coined, conine, conned, dentin, docent, dunite, indent, induce, induct, intend, intone, nocent, noetic, notice, nuncio, tendon, tinned, tunned, undine, undone, united, untied.

-4 letters: cento, centu, cited, coden, coned, conin, conte, coted, coude, count, cutie, cutin, dicot.

 Words containing the letters "c-d-e-i-n-n-o-t-u"
 

+1 letter: functioned.

 

+2 letters: discontinue, documenting, fecundation, tendencious, uncaptioned, uncontrived.

 

+3 letters: countermined, denunciation, denunciatory, discontinued, discontinues, fecundations, nondeductive, noneducation, noninductive, preinduction, undercoating, uninoculated, unsanctioned.

 

+4 letters: conglutinated, counterbidden, countersigned, denticulation, denunciations, documentarian, documentation, malfunctioned, misfunctioned, nonconductive, noncultivated, nondeductible, noneducations, nonproductive, preinductions, rediscounting, reintroducing, unchlorinated, unconditioned, unconstrained, unconstricted, uncoordinated, underclothing, undercoatings, undercounting, undoctrinaire.

 

+5 letters: consuetudinary, counterbidding, countermanding, counterpointed, counterraiding, countershading, counterstained, deconstructing, deconstruction, denticulations, discontinuance, discountenance, documentarians, documentations, mononucleotide, nondestructive, noneducational, reintroduction, semiconducting, superconfident, superinduction, unconsolidated, uncontaminated, uncontradicted, underclothings, unidirectional, unincorporated, unromanticized.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Unnoticed


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

55 6E 6E 6F 74 69 63 65 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..-    -.    -.    ---    -    ..    -.-.    .    -..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010101 01101110 01101110 01101111 01110100 01101001 01100011 01100101 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#110 &#110 &#111 &#116 &#105 &#99 &#101 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 006E 006E 006F 0074 0069 0063 0065 0064

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

558080818675697170

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Quotations: Familiar
7. Quotations: Fiction
8. Quotations: Non-fiction
9. Usage Frequency
10. Expressions
11. Expressions: Internet
12. Translations: Modern
13. Derivations
14. Rhymes
15. Anagrams
16. Orthography
17. Bibliography


  

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