Meanings
- not comparableNot seen or observed.
Such practices as Theſe, too groſs to lye / Long unobſerv'd by each diſcerning Eye, / The more judicious Iſraelites Unſpell'd, / Though ſtill the Charm the giddy Rabble held, […]
1682, [Nahum Tate; John Dryden], The Second Part of Absalom and Achitophel. A Poem, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 51 more example
The relation of the logit formula to the distribution of unobserved utility (as opposed to the characteristics of choice probabilities) was developed by Marley, as cited by Luce and Suppes (1965), who showed that the extreme value distribution leads to the logit formula.
2002, chapter 3, in Behavioral Models, UC Berkeley, archived from the original on 26 Apr 2022, page 38
Synonyms & antonyms
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
- Proto-Germanic*un-
- Proto-West Germanic*un-
- Old Englishun-
- Middle Englishun-
- Englishun-
- Englishobserved
- Englishunobserved
Translations
Ancient Greek ἀθεώρητος
- ἀθεώρητος (atheṓrētos)not seen or observed
French inobservé
- inobservénot seen or observed
Greek απαρατήρητος
- απαρατήρητος (aparatíritos)not seen or observed
Hungarian észrevétlen
- észrevétlennot seen or observed
Italian inosservato
- inosservatonot seen or observed
Latin inobservātus
- inobservātusnot seen or observed
Portuguese inobservado
- inobservadonot seen or observed
Spanish inobservado
- inobservadonot seen or observed
Cite this entry
unobserved. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unobserved
“unobserved.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unobserved. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unobserved,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unobserved.
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