unargued
- adjective
- /ʌnˈɑrɡjud/
- Formal
:
no discutido
- The judge dismissed the complaint due to the unargued claims made by the plaintiff.
Examples
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Courts will sometimes take up an unargued position sua sponte, but it's uncommon and usually results in grumbling from dissenting judges.
Blog text (3) -
After all, the laws that describe the universe must necessarily be the laws that caused the universe to come into being, but that is an unargued assertion.
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When you stop and think about all the unnoticed or unargued "finance charges" that banks and credit cards collect, it's in the millions (per month).
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Already by its second sentence, this essay makes clear its unargued adherence to the feminist dogma that "the personal is the political."
Academic text (1992) -
Indeed, a research student who decided to write a dissertation on the topic recently wrote to me to say just that and to ask where she could find cogent arguments in favor of the generic case, since the positions of the leading generic theorists are based on unargued, if tendentiously plausible, assumptions.
Academic text (1995) -
In legal debates, unargued points often weaken the overall case presented.
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The contract was deemed invalid because key terms remained unargued during negotiations.
Synonyms
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4.4
Not said or talked about
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6.2
People leave it unchanged without talking about it
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5.8
Something people do not talk about in meetings or conversations
People do not mention or discuss it in public
Not mentioned, cited or named in speech and writing
Not questioned or carefully checked
Surface Forms
Morphology
unargued = argued (transparent) = un + argue + ed
Regular negative prefix 'un-' applied to the past-participle/adjectival form 'argued', so learners who know 'argue' and 'un-' will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
The word unargued is formed from the prefix un- meaning 'not' and argued, the past form of argue, which you see in argument and which means 'a reason' or 'a discussion'. So an unargued point is one that was 'not discussed' or 'not used as an argument'.