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Unobserved

Definition: Unobserved

Unobserved

Adjective

1. 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: Unobserved

Synonyms: unnoticed (adj), unseen (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Unobserved

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Crosswords: Unobserved

English words defined with "unobserved": To steal a march. (references)
Specialty definitions using "unobserved": PHYSICIST, THEORETICAL. (references)

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Modern Usage: Unobserved

DomainUsage

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)

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

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Commercial Usage: Unobserved

DomainTitle

Books

  • Efficient Allocation of Transfers to the Poor: The Problem of Unobserved Household Income (Lsms Working Paper, No. 70) (reference)

  • Log-Linear Event History Analysis: A General Approach with Missing Data, Latent Variable, and Unobserved Heterogeneity (reference)

  • Sleep: An Unobserved Element in Education (reference)

  • Texas Tech: The Unobserved Heritage (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Use in Literature: Unobserved

TitleAuthorQuote

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

I walked about the outside, at first unobserved from within, the window was so deep and high.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Unobserved

SubjectTopicQuote

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.

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Usage Frequency: Unobserved

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%9533,629

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

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Expression: Unobserved

Expression using "unobserved": unobserved fire. Additional references.

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

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Modern Translation: Unobserved

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

   

Romanian

  

neobservat (unnoticed). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

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

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

neposmatran (unwatched), neopažen (undetected, unnoticed). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

desapercibido (unnoted, unready, unseen). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

obemärkt (in obscurity, inglorious, obscure, unheeded, unnoticed, unremarked). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

gözden kaçmış (overlooked, unnoted, unnoticed), farkedilmemiş (unnoticed, unspotted), dikkat edilmemiş. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

неспостережуваний, непомічений (unmarked, unnoted, unwitnessed). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

không ai thấy (unnoticed, unremarked), không ai để ý. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Unobserved

Misspellings

"Unobserved" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: unconserved. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Unobserved

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.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Unobserved


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

55 6E 6F 62 73 65 72 76 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 01101111 01100010 01110011 01100101 01110010 01110110 01100101 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#110 &#111 &#98 &#115 &#101 &#114 &#118 &#101 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 006E 006F 0062 0073 0065 0072 0076 0065 0064

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

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

55808168857184887170

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INDEX

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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