unheard

What it means

1. not comparableNot heard.

   Her cries for help remained unheard.

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   When night had fallen, the she-demon stole forth toward the hall, which she entered unheard and unseen.

   1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 33

2. not comparableNot listened to.

   c. 1693?, John Dryden, Amaryllis What pangs I feel, unpitied and unheard!

   1 more example

   There are no "bad" emotions; rather, there are only heard emotions and unheard emotions.

3. not comparableNot known to fame; not illustrious or celebrated; obscure.

   Nor was his name unheard or unadored.

   1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC

In a sentence

Her cries for help remained unheard.

Where it comes from

1. Old Englishunġehīered“unheard”
2. Middle Englishunherd
3. Englishunheard

From Middle English unherd, unherde, from Old English unġehīered (“unheard”), equivalent to un- + heard. Cognate with West Frisian ûnheard (“unheard”), Dutch ongehoord (“unheard”), German ungehört (“unheard”).