unsaid

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adjective

Unspoken.

“We discussed the terms, but the methods were left unsaid.”

Similar
unexpressedunstatedunutteredunverbalizedunverbalisedunvoicedunspokenimplicit
OriginEnglish said ← Middle English un- ← Old English un- →
UncommonScrabble 7
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Meanings

unsaid1

verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of unsay

    Once there, she makes good use of her time, and retakes all those said letters; considering, perhaps, that what is said may be unsaid, but what is written remains in evidence against you.

    1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 233

unsaid2

adjectiveunsaid (not comparable)
  1. not comparableUnspoken.

    We discussed the terms, but the methods were left unsaid.

    1 more example

    Informal techniques, if properly written, can be quite readable and comprehensible; unfortunately, it is easy to leave unsaid details that must be specified, or to misgeneralise and produce inconsistencies.

    1989, Hendrik J. Boom, Claus Bendix Nielsen, Andrew D. McGettrick, Peter D. Mosses, Charles Rattray, Robert D. Tennent, David A. Watt, “A view of formal semantics”, in Computer standards & Interfaces, volume 9, number 1

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectivenot made explicit

Similar
unexpressedunstatedunutteredunverbalizedunverbalisedunvoicedunspokenimplicitinexplicit
Also see
implicitinexplicitunexpressedunspokenunstatedunutteredunverbalizedunvoiced

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

unsaid · verb

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Full word history & related roots →

unsaid · adjective

  1. Proto-Indo-European*né
  2. Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
  3. Proto-Germanic*un-
  4. Proto-West Germanic*un-
  5. Old Englishun-
  6. Middle Englishun-
  7. Englishun-
  8. Englishsaid
  9. Englishunsaid

From un- + said.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with unsaid

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Anagrams

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Cite this entry
APA

unsaid. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unsaid

MLA

“unsaid.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unsaid. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unsaid,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unsaid.

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