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Definition: Unobserved |
UnobservedAdjective1. Not witnessed at first hand. 2. Not noticed. 3. Not observed; "managed to slip away unobserved". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "unobserved" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Synonyms: UnobservedSynonyms: unnoticed (adj), unseen (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
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. | |
Crosswords: Unobserved |
| English words defined with "unobserved": To steal a march. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "unobserved": PHYSICIST, THEORETICAL. (references) |
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Screenplays | Then you understood right, Merivel Miss Clemence is to be married and seemingly dispatched out of London with her husband, while in fact, I secrete her near the river in queue - the better to sport with her unobserved For her husband, I need a man who is far too enamored of women in general to make the mistake of loving one in particular (Restoration; writing credit: Rupert Walters) | |
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Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | I walked about the outside, at first unobserved from within, the window was so deep and high. |
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Economic History | Uzbekistan | Labor market regulation in Uzbekistan is similar to that of the Soviet Union, with all rights guaranteed but some rights unobserved. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Unobserved" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unobserved" is used about 95 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 95 | 33,629 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "unobserved": unobserved fire. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "unobserved"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i pavënëre (unheeded, unmarked, unnoticed, unseen, unsighted, unwitnessed), i pashënuar (not marked, unmarked, unnoted). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مخفي. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | неспазващ, ненаблюдаващ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | nesledovaný, nepozorovaný (unnoticed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | ikke observeret ild (unobserved fire), faren for en ukontrolleret udblaesning som foelge af en ubemaerket kick bliver stoerre med tiden;forvarsling og tegn paa vanskeligheder bygger paa,at maengden af returnerende borevaeske ikke er lig med maengden af tilfoert borevaeske (danger of a blowout from an unobserved kick increases with time;forewarning and indication of trouble are based on changes between the mud system in and the mud system out). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | het gevaar van een eruptie door een niet op tijd opgemerkte kick neemt met het verstrijken van de tijd toe;indien de samenstelling van de spoeling die de put ingaat anders is dan die van de spoeling die de put uitkomt,kan dat een ongungstig voorteken zi (danger of a blowout from an unobserved kick increases with time;forewarning and indication of trouble are based on changes between the mud system in and the mud system out). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | inobservé. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | unbeobachtet (unnoticed, unobservedly, unwatched). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | απαρατήρητοσ (unnoticed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | סמוי (covert, indiscernible, invisible, latent, unseen). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | észrevétlen (insensible, unnoticed, unregarded, unseen). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | inosservato (not observed, unheated, unnoted, unnoticeable, unnoticed, unperceived, unseen). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | observedunay neobservat (unnoticed). (various references) ненаблюдаемый, незамеченный (unespied, unheeded, unmarked, unnoted, unnoticed, unremarked, unwitnessed). (various references) neposmatran (unwatched), neopažen (undetected, unnoticed). (various references) desapercibido (unnoted, unready, unseen). (various references) obemärkt (in obscurity, inglorious, obscure, unheeded, unnoticed, unremarked). (various references) gözden kaçmış (overlooked, unnoted, unnoticed), farkedilmemiş (unnoticed, unspotted), dikkat edilmemiş. (various references) неспостережуваний, непомічений (unmarked, unnoted, unwitnessed). (various references) không ai thấy (unnoticed, unremarked), không ai để ý. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Unobserved" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: unconserved. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-e-e-n-o-r-s-u-v" | |
-2 letters: bounders, deboners, observed, overdubs, overused, rebounds, redbones, suborned, subvened, unserved, unversed. | |
-3 letters: bedsore, benders, bonders, boreens, bounder, bournes, burdens, burseed, deboner, debones, devours, endorse, endures, enduros, enrobed, enrobes, ensured, nervous, observe, obverse, oeuvres, overbed, overdub, overdue, overuse, rebound, redbone, resound, rosebud, sobered, sounder, subvene, undoers, unrobed, unrobes, unsober, venders, vendors, vendues, verbose. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-d-e-e-n-o-r-s-u-v" | |
+1 letter: overburdens. | |
+4 letters: overabundances, undiscoverable. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 6E 6F 62 73 65 72 76 65 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -. --- -... ... . .-. ...- . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01101110 01101111 01100010 01110011 01100101 01110010 01110110 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U n o b s e r v e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 006E 006F 0062 0073 0065 0072 0076 0065 0064 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)55808168857184887170 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Fiction 7. Quotations: Non-fiction 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Expressions 10. Translations: Modern 11. Derivations 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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