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Definition: Unspoken |
UnspokenAdjective1. Expressed without speech; especially because words would be inappropriate or inadequate; "a mute appeal"; "a silent curse"; "best grief is tongueless"- Emily Dickinson; "the words stopped at her lips unsounded"; "unspoken grief"; "choking exasperation and wordless shame"- Thomas Wolfe. 2. 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". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "unspoken" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1610. (references) |
Synonyms: UnspokenSynonyms: mute (adj), tongueless (adj), unexpressed (adj), unsaid (adj), unstated (adj), unuttered (adj), unverbalised (adj), unverbalized (adj), unvoiced (adj), wordless (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Speech | Phrase: quoth he, said he; "action is eloquence"; "pour the full tide of eloquence along"; "she speaks poignards and every word stabs"; "speech is but broken light upon the depth of the unspoken; "to try thy eloquence now 'tis time. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Unspoken |
| English words defined with "unspoken": soliloquy ♦ unexpressed, unsaid, unstated, unuttered, unverbalised, unverbalized, unvoiced. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Let the name of Moses be unheard and unspoken, erased from the memory of man, for all time. (The Ten Commandments; writing credit: J.H. Ingraham; A.E. Southon) The panoply to encapsulate the unspoken nobility of a comradeship. (Blackadder Goes Forth; writing credit: Richard Curtis; Ben Elton) We speak each other's unspoken language fluently. (The Sure Thing; writing credit: Steven Bloom; Jonathan Roberts) | |
Lyrics | If the words unspoken (Goody Two Shoes; performing artist: Adam Ant) Unspoken dreams (She's all I ever had; performing artist: Ricky Martin) Tonight with words unspoken ("Will You Love Me Tomorrow"; performing artist: The Shirelles) When there are words unspoken (Exhale (Shoop Shoop); performing artist: Whitney Houston) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Unspoken (1999) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Lajos Kossuth | The unspoken word never does harm. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | This seemed to him fitting, and he remained thus for some time, his soul lost in unspoken prayer to God. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | The verses passed from his lips and the inarticulate cries and the unspoken brutal words rushed forth from his brain to force a passage. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Egypt | Negotiations for a sale, whether with a government agency or a private individual, will be bound by certain unspoken Egyptian cultural requirements. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Unspoken" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unspoken" is used about 328 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% | 328 | 15,879 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "unspoken": unspoken accusation. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "unspoken": unspoken-for, unspoken-of, unspoken-to. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
unspoken | 14 |
jaci lyrics unspoken velasquez | 5 |
unspoken words | 4 |
love unspoken | 3 |
jaci unspoken velasquez | 3 |
formal organisation regulation unspoken within | 2 |
unspoken word | 2 |
thought unspoken | 2 |
the unspoken heard | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "unspoken"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i pashprehur (ineffable, inexpressible, unsaid, unspeakable, unvoiced). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | неизречен (inexplicit), неизказан (ineffable, inexplicit, inexpressible, mental, silent, unsaid, unspeakable, untold, unutterable, unvoiced), мълчалив (buttoned up, mum, mute, quiet, secret, secretive, silent, taciturn, tight lipped, tongue tied, uncommunicative). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 未说出口. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | tichý (calm, mum, noiseless, Pacific, peaceable, quiet, restful, silent, soundless, still, stock-still, subdued, tacit, tranquil), tajný (clandestine, classified, confidential, furtive, hole-and-corner, inward, occult, privy, restricted, retired, secret, sneaking, stealthy, surreptitious, undercover, underhand, underhanded), nevyslovený (implied, tacit, unmentioned, unsaid, unvoiced), nevyjádřený. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | het onuitgesproken verhaal (Ger Meinema, the Unspoken Story), Ger Meinema (Ger Meinema, the Unspoken Story). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | Ger Meinema (the Unspoken Story). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | ungesagt (unsaid, unstated), unerwähnt (unmentioned, unsaid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αμίλητοσ (silent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | hallgatólagos (connivance, implicit, implied, tacit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | tacito (silent, tacit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 言い落す (to forget to mention, to leave unspoken, to omit), 言い漏らす (to forget to mention, to leave unspoken, to let slip a secret). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | いいおとす (to forget to mention, to leave unspoken, to omit), いいもらす (to forget to mention, to leave unspoken, to let slip a secret). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | okenunspay não mencionado, não dito (unsaid). (various references) secret (arcanum, close, confidential, cover, covertly, hidden, hugger mugger, internal, mysterious, mystery, occult, private, privy, quiet, reticence, secrecy, secret, secretly, ulterior, underground, undisclosed, untold). (various references) невысказанный (unexpressed). (various references) neizrečen, neizgovoren (undelivered). (various references) no hablado. (various references) outtalad (inarticulate, unasked, unexpressed, unsaid, unvoiced, voiceless), osagd (unsaid, untold). (various references) söylenmemiş (undelivered, unsaid, unspoken-to, untold, unvoiced). (various references) gьrrьсsiz (certain, wordless). (various references) який не удостоївся розмови, невисловлений. (various references) không nói lên, hiểu ngầm (constructive). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Unspoken" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: unpoke, unspokan, unspoke, unstocked. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "unspoken" (pronounced unspō"kun) |
| 6 | -s p ō" k u n | misspoken, outspoken, spoken. |
| 4 | -ō" k u n | broken, token, unbroken, woken. |
| 3 | -k u n | awaken, bacon, beacon, beckon, blacken, bracken, chicken, darken, deacon, drunken, falcon, forsaken, gascon, harken, heartbroken, housebroken, interleukin, lichen, liken, Macon, mistaken, overtaken, Pekin, pelican, Pipkin, pumpkin, quicken, reawaken, reckon, republican, retaken, second, shaken, shrunken, sicken, silicon, slacken, stricken, sunken, taken, thicken, undertaken, unshaken, waken, weaken, zircon. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-k-n-n-o-p-s-u" | |
-1 letter: unspoke. | |
-2 letters: nonuse, spoken, sunken, unopen, unpens. | |
-3 letters: kenos, knops, knosp, neons, neuks, nones, nouns, nukes, opens, peons, pokes, pones, pukes, punks, spoke, spunk, unpen. | |
-4 letters: eons, epos, keno, kens, keps, knop, kops, kues, kune, neon, neuk, noes, none, nope, nose, noun, nous, nuke, nuns, okes, ones, onus, open, opes, opus, pens, peon, peso. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-k-n-n-o-p-s-u" | |
+5 letters: outspokenness. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 6E 73 70 6F 6B 65 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -. ... .--. --- -.- . -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01101110 01110011 01110000 01101111 01101011 01100101 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U n s p o k e n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 006E 0073 0070 006F 006B 0065 006E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5580858281777180 |
| 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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